Universal Service: Competition, Interconnection, and Monopoly in the Making of the American Telephone System, by Milton L. Mueller, Jr
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Inf. Soc.
دوره 14 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1998