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    quick one-way messages may feel like a modern convenience, but it is very similar to communicating through Morse Code on the electric telegraph - technology that was commonplace nearly 200 years ago. Had the electric telegraph been brought into the home, the need for modern day texting may have evolved quite differently, or maybe not at all. The electric telegraph, invented in the 1830's, sent messages over wires from one point to another using the short ‘dots' and longer ‘dashes' of Morse Code.

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    This paper will examine the proposed merger of two telecommunications companies: AT&T and T-Mobile. The purpose is to determine whether such a merger would be in the best interest of the telecommunications industry, as well as the consumers served by the industry. In order to adequately understand the environment contemplated by such a merger, this paper will examine the history of antitrust laws in the United States; with particular focus on the monopolies serving as a template for what would happen

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    Case 14-3 Coconut Telegraph Background on Coconut Telegraph Coconut Telegraph Corporation (Coconut) is a developer and provider of specialized customer billings and management software and systems. On February 1, 2012, Coconut had an arrangement with Buffet Worldwide Inc. (Buffet) to deliver the Volcano System and provide one year of post contract customer support (PCS). The PCS will start March 1, 2012. At the time of the arrangement, February 1, 2012, Buffet paid $12,000 for the Volcano System

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    AT&T The AT+T Corporation, formerly known as The American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was incorporated on March 3, 1885 in New York as a wholly owned subsidiary of The American Bell Telephone Company. Its original purpose was to manage and expand the burgeoning toll (long distance) business of American Bell and its licensees. It continued as the long distance company until December 30, 1899 when it assumed the business and property of American Bell and became the parent company of the

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    Today people communicate through text and email and think nothing about it because they can get a reply right away. Back in the 1800’s people had to wait for up to, months to get a reply from someone. “The mail was delivered by either stagecoach or by boat and it would take up to 21 days to get a letter to someone” (Pony Express). In the 1860’s a group of men invented a faster mail delivery service called the Pony Express. The Pony express transformed the ingenuity of America by the delivery of a

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    Trueblood Case 14-3: Coconut Telegraph Brett O’Baker 9/14/15 Facts: * Coconut Telegraph Corporation (Coconut) is a developer and provider of specialized customer billings and management software and systems * On February 1, 2012, Coconut entered into an arrangement with Buffett Worldwide Inc. (Buffett) to deliver the Volcano System and provide one year of post-contract customer support (PCS) beginning March 1, 2012. * Buffett paid $12,000 on February 1, 2012, for the Volcano System

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    The Telegraph In The 18th and 19th century the Industrial Revolution took place. This was a period of time where rural societies became industrial. This introduction to machinery brought a lot of change to areas around the world. For example, the way individual’s communicated needed some improvements. These improvements came during the Industrial Revolution. In the 1830s and the 1840s the telegraph was developed by Samuel Morse, Sir William Cooke, Sir Charles Wheatstone, Leonardo Gale, and Alfred

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    In order for General Grant to command Union forces from City Point, he created a highly efficient communication network. The communication system relied extensively on the use of the electric telegraph. An electric telegraph is a telegraph in which an operator at one station causes words or signs to be made at another station by means of a current of electricity, generated by a battery and transmitted over a wire. Grant’s extensive communication system enabled him to be able to effectively command

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    In 1836 Samuel F. B. Morse, Joseph Henry and Alfred Vail created a electrical telegraph. Which is a device that sends electrical currents over long distances through wires, when received on the other end it could either be shown by a light flashing or heard by a clicking sound. One year after Samuel released the telegraph Charles Wheatstone and William Cooke released an improved version of the electrical telegraph. They invented this so that people were able to send information over long distances

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    Case Report: AT&T: Twenty Years of Change AT&T Case depicts the history of 130 years old giant company, which served its customers in telecommunications area. From its foundation by Graham Bell in 1875 to the restructuring decision in 2000, the company had many key events to be studied in terms of several strategic management point of views. This paper mainly focuses on external environment issues and corporate-level strategies. Analysis with respect to Corporate-Level Strategy After the foundation

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