Title :
The role of municipal officials in telephone system development: San Francisco, 1893-1915
Author :
Maguire, Meighan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Commun., California Univ., San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors employed several different strategies in its attempt to secure better telephone service in the city between 1893 and 1915. By describing these different strategies for addressing the problem of monopoly privilege (high rates, poor service, and municipal corruption), this paper illuminates the involvement of municipal politicians in determining the dynamics of telephone system development in San Francisco during the Progressive Era
Keywords :
history; telephony; Progressive Era; San Francisco; monopoly privilege; municipal corruption; municipal officials; municipal politicians; telephone service; telephone system development; Cities and towns; Control systems; History; Monopoly; Protection; Storage area networks; Telegraphy; Telephony; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Technology and Society, 1998. ISTAS 98. Wiring the World: The Impact of Information Technology on Society., Proceedings of the 1998 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
South Bend, IN
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4327-1
DOI :
10.1109/ISTAS.1998.688150
