Network Neutrality
Switzerland's Role in the Genesis of the Telegraph Union, 1855-1875.

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Beteiligte: Balbi, Gabriele, Fari, Simone, Richeri, Giuseppe, Calvo, Spartaco
veröffentlicht: Bern : Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers, 2014.
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Umfang: 1 online resource (230 pages)
ISBN: 9783035107449
Ausgabe: 180th ed.
Sprache: Englisch
Schlagwörter:
International Telegraph Union > History.
Telegraph > Political aspects > Switzerland > History > 19th century.
Telecommunication > Switzerland > History > 19th century.
Telecommunication > International cooperation > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Print version:: Balbi, Gabriele, Network Neutrality, Bern : Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers,c2014
Kollektion: E-Books adlr
Inhaltsangabe

This book analyses with new sources the early history of the Telegraph Union (today the International Telecommunication Union) and focuses on the key role - political, diplomatic, economic and technical - played by Switzerland in favouring its birth and master-minding its structures during the ten years preceding and following its creation (1855-1875).
Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Switzerland takes on Telecommunications. The politics, economics, technology and society of the period
Introduction
1.1 The beginnings of telecommunications in Switzerland
1.2 Federalism and democracy
1.3 Neutrality and defence
1.4 Geography and international relations
1.5 Liberalism and telecommunications
1.6 Foreign trade
1.7 Radicalism and telecommunications
1.8 Know-how and technical elite
1.9 National and international interests
Chapter 2 - "Bringing Together the Two Large Electric Currents Dividing Europe" (1849-1865)
Introduction
2.1 Bilateral conventions
2.2 The Austro-German Union
2.3 The Western European Union
2.4 En route to convergence
2.5 Paris 1855: the birth of WETU
2.6 Turin 1857: the invite to Austria
2.7 Stuttgart 1857 and Brussels 1858
2.8 Bern 1858: an attempt to clone Stuttgart
2.9 Friedrichshafen 1858: Switzerland holding the balance
2.10 Bregenz 1863: a European Union in view
2.11 Switzerland's solutions
2.12 Diplomacy and imbroglio in the 1850s and 1860s
Chapter 3 - The Birth of the Telegraph Union: the 1865 Paris Conference
Introduction
3.1 Austria's presence
3.2 The Federal Council calls the tune
3.3 Louis Curchod emerging
3.4 Switzerland scores
3.5 Switzerland beefs up
Chapter 4 - The 1868 Vienna Conference
Introduction
4.1 A special agent for international telegraphy
4.2 Challet-Venel decodes Curchod
4.3 The anti-dumping regulation
4.4 The debate over the Bureau
4.5 Swiss reactions
4.6 Organization and ambiguity
Chapter 5 - Towards Rome Conference: Moves and Counter-moves (1868-1872)
Introduction
5.1 Replacing Curchod
5.2 The Bureau as a peacemaker
5.3 Briefing the Swiss delegate(s) for Rome.
5.4 The German move to snaffle the Bureau
5.5 The Germans at work
5.6 The Bureau left in Swiss hands
5.7 Swiss reactions
Chapter 6 - The "Bureau"cratisation of the Telegraph Union: St Petersburg (1875)
Introduction
6.1 Continuity and change
6.2 Curchod mentoring the Russian delegate
6.3 The Bureau-cratic system
6.4 The separation of the ways
6.5 The Bureau as a Swiss body
Conclusion
References.