Telephone Blog November Archive

The history of the Telephone has long been controversial in all aspect. This site offers a lot of topic about the telephone monopoly of AT&T.

• The Bogus Natural Monopoly Model
• AT&T's Patent Monopoly, 1876-94
• The Development of Competition, 1894-1913
• Theodore Vail, Nationalization, and the End of Competition, 1913-21
• World War I and Nationalization
• The Importance of Rate Regulation
• The FCC and Telephone Entitlement
• Lessons for Today's Legislators

Unnatural Monopoly: Critical Moments in the Development of the Bell System Monopoly