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Maguire, Meighan Jeanne.

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The local dynamics of telephone system development: The San Francisco exchange, 1893--1919.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The local dynamics of telephone system development: The San Francisco exchange, 1893--1919./
Author:	Maguire, Meighan Jeanne.
Description:	311 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-09, Section: A, page: 3405.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-09A.
Subject:	Mass communication. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9984814
ISBN:	9780599921931

The local dynamics of telephone system development: The San Francisco exchange, 1893--1919.
Maguire, Meighan Jeanne.

The local dynamics of telephone system development: The San Francisco exchange, 1893--1919. - 311 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-09, Section: A, page: 3405.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2000.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This municipal-level study of the dynamics of local telephone system development provides a fine-grained analysis of the causes and consequences of change over time within this crucially important communications industry. Focusing specifically on the political and economic forces that helped shape local telephone system development between 1893 and 1919, this dissertation demonstrates that Pacific Bell's private monopoly in San Francisco was anything but secure at the turn of the century. Indeed, there were at least nine independent telephone companies that expressed an interest in establishing local telephone exchanges between 1893 and 1906, and two such companies were awarded competitive telephone franchises. One of these latter, Home Telephone of San Francisco, proceeded to build a state-of-the-art automatic telephone exchange. In addition, the San Francisco City Charter of 1900 declared for municipal ownership of all public utilities in San Francisco, including local telephone lines. The cost to build a municipal telephone plant was estimated in 1902, and the question of municipal ownership reemerged at several key points over the next decade. Finally, the Board of Supervisors was authorized to set local telephone rates in 1908. The Supervisors proceeded to reduce telephone rates each and every year until 1915, when a state constitutional amendment---which was actively promoted by Pacific Bell and other public utility companies---empowered the California Railroad Commission towards this same end. Ultimately, Home Telephone of San Francisco went out of business, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors was stripped of its authority to set local telephone rates, and Pacific Bell's position as a privately-owned, publicly-regulated monopoly provider of local telephone service was secured. But, taken together, these attempts to challenge Pacific Bell's position as a private monopoly and to regulate its monopoly profits remain as examples of the local effort to alter the terms under which telephone service would be provided in San Francisco.

ISBN: 9780599921931Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144804
Mass communication.

The local dynamics of telephone system development: The San Francisco exchange, 1893--1919.
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