Laurence Mussio examines how federal and provincial public policy tried to keep pace with the diffusion of telecommunications, consumer demand, and a rising tide of technological innovation. Telecommunications regulation struggled to maintain a balance between producer and consumer in an increasingly complex field and policy makers were compelled to defend the national interest in international telecommunications arrangements or by making far-reaching decisions about transcontinental microwave systems and satellites. By the late 1960s national policy makers had embraced the arrival of the computer - especially once it began to be wired into Canada's communications infrastructure. Telecom Nation explores the impact of the computer on government policy and the first attempts to build a "national computer utility" - the beginnings of the Internet - twenty-five years before it became a reality.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-298) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 384/.0971
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9780773569140 0773521755
- LCCN
- HE7815
- LCCN Item number
- M878 2001eb
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (x, 307 p., [10] p. of plates)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)gtp00521470 (OCoLC)123470260 (CaOOCEL)400192
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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