Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Chapter One Introduction 1
6. Chapter 2 Alaska’s First Information Highway 9
7. Chapter 3 Expansion of Telecommunications after World War II 29
8. Chapter 4 Early Broadcasting 39
9. Chapter 5 Privatizing the Alaska Communications System 49
10. Chapter 6 The Beginning of the Satellite Era 63
11. Chapter 7 The NASA Satellite Experiments 77
12. Chapter 8 From Satellite Experiments to Commercial Service 93
13. Chapter 9 Telephone Service for Every Village 107
14. Chapter 10 Broadcasting and Teleconferencing for Rural Alaska 119
15. Chapter 11 Rural Television: From RATNET to ARCS 137
16. Chapter 12 Deregulation and Disruption 149
17. Chapter 13 State Planning and Policy 163
18. Chapter 14 Alaska’s Local Telephone Companies 181
19. Chapter 15 The Phone Wars 199
20. Chapter 16 Distance Education and eLearning: From Satellites to the Internet 207
21. Chapter 17 Telemedicine in Alaska 221
22. Chapter 18 The Growth of Mobile and Broadband 233
23. Chapter 19 Past and Future Connections 253
24. Abbreviations and Acronyms 265
25. Notes 269
26. Bibliography 303
27. Index 325