Inventing American Telecommunications
Peoples & Things
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There's a myth that there were some good old days before government got its sticky regulatory fingers involved in business and technology. Lee Vinsil: One of the best examinations of how wrong this myth is is Richard John's book Network Nation, Inventing American Telecommunications. Much of this regulation took place at the state and especially local municipal level rather than at the federal level of government., he says.
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