Janson, Michael A.; Yoo, Christopher S. - 2013
stark contrast to the pattern of government ownership followed by virtually every other nation. What is not widely known is …, 1918, the exigencies of World War I led the federal government to take over the U.S. telephone system. A close examination … universal service was the result of government-imposed emulation of the postal system, not, as some have claimed, a post hoc …