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Telecommunications - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The term Telecommunications refers to the communication of information at a distance. This covers many technologies including radio, telegraphy, television, telephone, data communication and computer networking. ..." |
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Who Owns the Internet?, by Tim Swanson, Mises.org Daily Article, 4 May 2006
Related Topics: Free Markets, Prices, Private Property
"... executives at the established telecom firms have mentioned that in the future, they might charge third-party developers such as Google, Yahoo, and Skype higher rates. ... Unsurprisingly, content providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and others have been lobbying Congress to prevent this from occurring under a scheme called network neutrality." |
Why the FCC should die, by Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com, 7 Jun 2004
"Central planning didn't work for the Soviet Union, and it's not working for us. ... The FCC rejected long-distance telephone service competition in 1968, banned Americans from buying their own non-Bell telephones in 1956 ... and did not grant modern cellular telephone licenses until 1981--about four decades after Bell Labs invented the technology." |
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