Captive audience : the telecom industry and monopoly power in the new gilded age / Susan Crawford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crawford, Susan P., 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Telecommunication--Law and legislation--United States.

Telecommunication.

Antitrust law--United States.

Antitrust law.

Telecommunications.

Medical Subjects:

Telecommunications.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ten years ago, the United States stood at the forefront of the Internet revolution. With some of the fastest speeds and lowest prices in the world for high-speed Internet access, the nation was poised to be the global leader in the new knowledge-based economy. Today that global competitive advantage has all but vanished because of a series of government decisions and resulting monopolies that have allowed dozens of countries, including Japan and South Korea, to pass us in both speed and price of broadband. This steady slide backward not only deprives consumers of vital services needed in a competitive employment and business market-it also threatens the economic future of the nation.This important book by leading telecommunications policy expert Susan Crawford explores why Americans are now paying much more but getting much less when it comes to high-speed Internet access. Using the 2011 merger between Comcast and NBC Universal as a lens, Crawford examines how we have created the biggest monopoly since the breakup of Standard Oil a century ago. In the clearest terms, this book explores how telecommunications monopolies have affected the daily lives of consumers and America's global economic standing.

Contents:

From railroad to telephone

Regulatory pendulum : the long twilight struggle

A family company

Going vertical : lessons from AOL-Warner

Netflix, dead or alive

The peacock disappears

The programming battering ram

When cable met wireless

The biggest squeeze of all

Comcast's marathon

The FCC approves

Aftermath

The AT&T - T-Mobile deal

The costly gift.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300167375

0300167377

9781283906562

1283906562

9780300153132

0300153139

OCLC:

822227315