Captive audience [electronic resource] : the telecom industry and monopoly power in the new gilded age / Susan Crawford.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From railroad to telephone -- Regulatory pendulum : the long twilight struggle -- A family company -- Going vertical : lessons from AOL-Warner -- Netflix, dead or alive -- The peacock disappears -- The programming battering ram -- When cable met wireless -- The biggest squeeze of all -- Comcast's marathon -- The FCC approves -- Aftermath -- The AT&T - T-Mobile deal -- The costly gift.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.