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Index
A-C Network Analyzer, 157
ABC television network, 57
Above 890 Mc case, 55 - 58, 140
Access charge rule, 103, 209
Adidas, 108
Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS),
146, 150
Advanced Research Projects Agency
(ARPA), 184 - 189
AEG, 116
Aiken, Mark, 161
Allocation issues, 16 - 17, 53 - 56, 123, 139,
146
Altair personal computer, 182
AM broadcasting, 135 - 136
America Online, 106
American Bell Telephone Company, 25,
28, 30
American Broadcasting Company (ABC),
57, 135
American Can Company, 43
American Carriers Telecommunications
Association (ACTA), 190
American Marconi Company, 134
American Petroleum Institute (API), 55, 59
Central Committee on Radio Facilities, 55
American Speaking Telephone Company,
22, 27
Ameritech Corp., 102 - 105, 145
Ampex, 13
Andreessen, Marc, 180
Antanasoff, John, 160
Antitrust enforcement; see alsospecific
cases
competition and, 83, 85
Eisenhower administration and, 47, 57
Ford administration, 84 - 85
Truman administration and, 43 - 46
Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act
(Tunney Act), 98, 100, 102
Apple Computers, 182 - 183, 195
Armstrong, Edwin H., 137
Arthur D. Little Company, 74
Associated Communication, 142
Associative trails, 189
Asychronous transfer mode (ATM)
switching, 7
Asynchronous digital subscriber lines
(ADSL), 207 - 208
AT&T
Above 890 Mc case, 55 - 56, 140
Carterfone case, 58 - 60, 71 - 72
cellular communication and, 146 - 147,
150, 155
computer development and, 163, 167,
171 - 173
Computer II/III decisions, 176 - 177
early history of predecessor companies,
11 - 16, 20 - 25, 132
foundations of modern company, 25 - 29
Hush-A-Phone case, 51 - 52
interconnection policies and restrictions,
48 - 53
McCaw Cellular and, 152 - 153
MCI and, 64 - 69
antitrust suit, 77, 84 - 85, 88, 95
Bell of Pennsylvania Case, 73 - 76
Execunet case, 76 - 80
military research and, 47 - 48, 100,
137 - 138, 144, 159, 184 - 188
as public-private partnership, 32 - 37
radio and, 37 - 39, 134 - 136
as regulated monopoly and public utility,
29 - 32
reorganization of, 103 - 105, 200 - 201
satellite communications, 57 - 58, 123 - 125

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Publication Information: Book Title: How America Got On-Line: Politics, Markets, and the Revolution in Telecommunications. Contributors: Alan Stone - author. Publisher: M.E. Sharpe. Place of Publication: Armonk, NY. Publication Year: 1997. Page Number: 232.
    
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