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Connecting Alaskans : telecommunications in Alaska from telegraph to broadband /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hudson, Heather E.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Telecommunication > Alaska > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Alaska's first information highway
  • Expansion after World War II and "the talking lady of the North"
  • Early broadcasting
  • Privatizing the Alaska communications system
  • The beginning of the satellite era
  • The NASA experiments
  • From satellite experiments to commercial service
  • Telephone service for every village
  • Broadcasting and teleconferencing for rural Alaska
  • Rural television : from RATNET to ARCS
  • Deregulation and disruption
  • State planning and policy
  • Alaska's local telephone companies
  • The phone wars
  • Distance learning : from satellites to the internet
  • Telemedicine in Alaska
  • A new century : the growth of mobile and broadband
  • Past and future connections.