Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power In the New Gilded Age

摘要

Clifford Lynch, Director of the US Coalition for Networked Information, recently reflected that we are "now in an era when giant, badly behaved Telecom incumbents dominate". This comment resonates with those of Timothy Wu in his 2010 book, The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, in which Wu emphasised the dominance of Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft (Wu, 2010). Wu argued that the internet is in danger of following the same path of company dominance as occurred with telegraphy and telephony in the nineteenth century, and film, radio and television in the twentieth.