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History of telecommunications
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The History of Telecommunications
Taken from
The MCI School of Telecommunications Management Reference Guide
Typed and edited by Knight Lightning
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This file is to help clear up how the phone companies began and what has transpired to create our cucked up phone system.
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Telephone History:
- 2/14/1876 BELL AND GRAY FILE PATENTS 3 HOURS APART - 1877 FIRST PUBLIC USE - NEWS DISPATCO BOSTON GLOBE FOUR YEARS LATER - 132,500 PHONES IN USE - 1878 FIRST COMECA WTHOARD INSTALLED AT NEW HAVEN, CT. - 1878 WESTERN UNION PURCHASES GRAY'S PATENT -PAEN SITFIEDBYBELL - 1879 BELL AND W.U. AGREE: 1. BELL PURCHASES W.U. TELEPHONE EQUPMET 2. BEL PAS WU. MALL ROYALTY 3. BELL AGREES NOT TO ENTER TELEGRAPH BUSINESS DURING LIE OFDISPTED PATETS 4. .U. AGREES: TO STAY OUT OF TELEPHONY FOR SAME PERIOD - TO DROP PAENT SITS -ESTABISHEDMONOPLY GRUNDWORK OF TODAY - 1881 BELL PURCHASES W.E. CO. - 188 SUPEME CORT FINS BELLS PATETS VALD - PATENT MONOPOLY UNTIL 1893 - 1888 ELL DEVLOPS LURATIVE RBAN REIONS - 893 NEW COMPANIES STARTED IN SMALL COMMUNITIE AND RUA AREAS, ELL DOES NOTALLOW INERCONNECION - 1907 BELL CENTRALIZES R D EFFORT BELLLABS FORMLLY INCORORATED IN1925 TRIES TO BUY STROMBER-CARLSON -1904-1919 MOST STATS REQUIRE NTERCONNECION OF ALLPHONE COMPNIES 34 SATES PASS LWS REGULATIG TELEPHONY- 1913 BELL CONTOLS 50% OF .S. MARKET KINGSBURY COMMITEMENT - BEL AND JUSTICEDEPARTMENT AREE: 1. ALOW INDEPENDET PHONE COMPNIES TO INTECONNECT 2. NOT ACQUIR OTHER INDEPEDENTS WITHOUTGOVERNMENT APROVAL 3. REINQUISH CONTRL OVER W.U. (N 909, BELL HAD URCHASED CONTRLLING STOK IN W.U.) - 121 AT&TFREED OF ACQUIITION RESTAINT WITH WILLS-GRAHAM ACT - 922 9000PHONE COMPANIESIN EXISTANCE - ODAY 1500
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Regulatory:
1876 BELL AND GRAY PATENTS 1877 BELL OFFERS PATENT TO WESTERN UNION 1878 MMERCIAL SWITCHBOARD 1879 AGREEMENT BETWEEN BELL AND WESTERN UNION 1881 BEL UCAEWSERN ELECTRIC 1883 SUPREME COURT PATENT MONOPOLY 1888 BELL DEVELOPS UBA RGINS183 RURAL TELEPHONE COMPANIES 1907 BELL R & D 1904-19 - INTERCONECIONOF URA AN URAN EQUIRED - STATE REGULATORY COMMISSION - KINGBURYAGREMENT- ACUISIION ESTRINTS 1921 WILLIS-GRAHAM ACT FREES BELL OF ACQUISITION RETRAINS 193 CMMUNIATION ACT F 1934 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (FC) FORMD PRINIPLES: 1. Service must be just and resonable; must be proftable 2. o crosssubsidiation 3. No dicrimination between groups of cutomers 4. Pulic noti of ratechange 168 CARTERFONE 1969 MCI DECISON 1971 SPCIALIZED ARRIER PRCEEDING -PRIVATE LNES 1978 EXECUNET DECISION EFIA AGREEMNT 1978 1934COMMUNICATONS ACT RERITE 1956 CONSENT DECREE,BELL TO OFFR REGULAR CMMUNICATION SERVICES ONLY 1966 FCC OMPUTER INQUIRY 1971 FCC DISTINTION BETWEENDP AND MEASUED SWITCHING1976 FCC COMPUTE INQUIRY I 1978 AT&T REORGAIZATION BUSINSS/RESIDENTIA 1980 FCC ENHANCEDVS. BASIC TELCOMUNICATIONS SEVICES 1982 DEPARTMEN OF JUSTICE COSENT DECREE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1986 ?
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