MDIA 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Enterprise Modelling, The Threepenny Opera, Wireless
22 Dec 2016
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First telephone users: doctors, druggists, vets, businesses, lawyers. There was an initial suspicion that phone services could be of interest to private homes: the bell company chooses the areas that it provides for based on economy, some areas remain without service. Public phones were prominent 1900: phone booths. The bell monopoly: 1880-1893: minimum flat rate in boston: (equivalent to 10% of an average monthly income, bell"s affiliates took every advantage of their monopoly to levy what the market could bear. Rochester telephone boycott: 1886: 800 out of 950 subscribers discontinue phone use for a year and a half, protesting. During wwii civilians are encouraged to be brief and leave the lines free by the government propaganda: help him get home by long distance, please be brief , i am on war work. If you must use me, be brief! : if you must phone, be brief .
