Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age (65 page)

Council on Jobs and Competitiveness,
(i)

Cox Communications,
(i)
,
(ii)

Crédit Mobilier scandal,
(i)

CSN Philadelphia,
(i)

Customer service,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Daily
(iPad-only newspaper),
(i)

Danforth, John,
(i)

DeButts, John,
(i)

Defense Department, refusal to give up spectrum,
(i)

Delaney, John,
(i)

Democrats,
(i)
,
(ii)

Deregulation: Bush agenda for,
(i)
; cable industry,
(i)
; Internet access services,
(i)
,
(ii)
; Powell agenda for,
(i)
,
(ii)
; present generation's predilection for,
(i)
.
See also
Regulatory structure

Deutsche Telekom,
(i)
,
(ii)

Digital broadcast television, transition to,
(i)

Digital divide.
See
Rich-poor gap

Diller, Barry,
(i)
,
(ii)

Dillon, John,
(i)

Dimon, Jamie,
(i)

Dingell, John,
(i)

DirecTV,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Discrimination in favor of own business plans,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Dish Network,
(i)

Disney.
See
Walt Disney Company

Diversity.
See
Minorities

Dobbin, Frank,
(i)

Doctorow, Cory,
(i)

Donovan, John,
(i)

Downstream market power,
(i)
,
(ii)

Drawbacks,
(i)

DSL service,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)

EarthLink,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Ebersol, Dick,
(i)

EchoStar,
(i)

E. C. Knight Co., United States v.
(1895),
(i)

Edison, Thomas,
(i)

Edwards, Mickey,
(i)

Eggerton, John,
(i)

Eisner, Michael,
(i)

Electric companies, history of,
(i)

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF),
(i)

Epix,
(i)

Epstein, Richard,
(i)

ESPN,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)

ESPN2,
(i)

European Groupe Spéciale Mobile,
(i)

Facebook,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Farmers protesting railroad charges,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

FCC University,
(i)

Federal Communications Commission (FCC): access fees for online services sought by phone companies (1987),
(i)
; ancillary jurisdiction over cable industry,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
; AT&T notice of TMobile merger to,
(i)
; cable-modem service considered as information service by,
(i)
; CATVs not regulated by,
(i)
; Comcast-NBCU merger process in,
(i)
,
(ii)
; comparison to ICC,
(i)
; complaints against cable industry,
(i)
; computer processing differentiated from data transport,
(i)
; creation of,
(i)
,
(ii)
; field hearing on Comcast-NBCU merger,
(i)
,
(ii)
; Financial Interest and Syndication (fin-syn) Rules,
(i)
; history of mergers before,
(i)
; Internet Policy Statement (2005),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
; and local franchising,
(i)
; “must carry” rules,
(i)
,
(ii)
; National Broadband Plan (March 2010),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
; no delegated power over Internet access,
(i)
; “open Internet” proposed (December 2010),
(i)
; pole attachments, lack of jurisdiction over,
(i)
; public-interest values considered by,
(i)
; record of filings with,
(i)
; rejected telecommunications mergers,
(i)
; on “specialized services,”
(i)
,
(ii)
; telephone service regulation (one-wire problem),
(i)
; 30-percent rule on cable ownership of market,
(i)
; on usage-based billing,
(i)

Federal subsidies of Internet access for rural and poor areas,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Federal Trade Commission (FTC),
(i)
,
(ii)

Feld, Harold,
(i)

Fiber optics: benefits of,
(i)
; compared to wireless communications,
(i)
; costs of installing,
(i)
; lack of incentive to upgrade,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
; local connections using,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) service,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Financial Interest and Syndication (fin-syn) Rules,
(i)

First Amendment rights,
(i)
,
(ii)

Fitzmaurice, Sena,
(i)

Flat-rate service for online access,
(i)

Fleishman, Glenn,
(i)

Flynn, John,
(i)

“Forced access,”
(i)
,
(ii)

Forging Industrial Policy (Dobbin),
(i)

4G wireless access,
(i)

Fox,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)

Fox Sports,
(i)

Franchising,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)

Franken, Al,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)

Free Press,
(i)
,
(ii)

FTC.
See
Federal Trade Commission

FTTH.
See
Fiber-to-the-home service

FX,
(i)

Gates, Bill,
(i)

GE Capital,
(i)

Geist, Michael,
(i)

Genachowski, Julius,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)

General Accounting Office (GAO),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

General Electric: and content programming,
(i)
,
(ii)
; history of,
(i)
; meetings with Comcast for NBCU deal,
(i)
; as owner of NBC,
(i)
,
(ii)
.
See also
Merger of Comcast and NBCU

Global Crossing,
(i)

Gonzalez, Charles,
(i)

Google,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Gore, Al,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Granger commissions,
(i)

Gray, William,
(i)

Great Northern Railway,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Greene, Harold,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Gross, Philip,
(i)

Group W acquisition,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

GSM (Global Systems for Mobile Communications),
(i)
,
(ii)

GTE merger with Bell Atlantic,
(i)
,
(ii)

GTE Sprint,
(i)

Gutierrez, Luis,
(i)

Hammer, Bonnie,
(i)

Harding, Warren G.,
(i)

Harlan, John Marshall,
(i)

Harriman, E. H.,
(i)

Hastings, Reed,
(i)

Hatfield, Dale,
(i)

HBO,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Hepburn Act (1906),
(i)

Hesse, Dan,
(i)

Higginbotham, Stacey,
(i)

High-speed Internet access: benefits of,
(i)
; Comcast's focus on,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
; government assistance for,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
; importance for economic growth and innovation,
(i)
; independents blocked by incumbent structure,
(i)
,
(ii)
; monopoly over,
(i)
; Powell's goals,
(i)
; pricing of,
(i)
,
(ii)
; recommendations for,
(i)
; wholesale access to,
(i)
,
(ii)

Hill, James J.,
(i)
,
(ii)

Hindery, Leo,
(i)
,
(ii)

Hispanic Federation,
(i)

Hispanics.
See
Minorities

Holder, Eric,
(i)

Holmes, Oliver Wendell,
(i)

Hot-potato routing,
(i)

House Judiciary Committee hearing (February 2010),
(i)