Facsimile communication, the process by which graphics are transmitted from one place to another, is the subject of this book designed for a system engineer designing a whole system, a student who needs to learn all he can without getting bogged down in details, or a businessman who wants to know how facsimile can help him. The book surveys…

Two recent developments in communications satellite technology may speed the coming of cable TV (CATV) networks. First, increases in satellite power are reducing the cost of ground stations. Second, a connection between one ground station, the satellite, and any other ground station is no longer necessarily fixed. Now one station can communicate…

A three-part petition was filed in December 1974 with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) which presented the first serious threat to public broadcasters' exemption from the FCC's multiple-ownership rules. The petition requested a revision of the rules that permit multiple ownership of noncommercial educational stations within a single…

Addressed particularly to grade school children, this report summarizes the responsibilities of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in regulating the broadcast industry, pay television, cable television, common carriers, and radio services for safety and special uses. Also described are its field engineering and monitory activities. (SC)

This report describes the On-Line ERIC Project conducted jointly by the National Library of Australia and by IBM Australia Ltd. between March and May 1976. The Project involved a telecommunications network with video terminals and printers linking the National Library, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Central Library, and Macquarie…

It seems inevitable that the system requirements imposed by transmission and processing will determine the microform of the future and that it will be a digital recording rather than a picture. (Author)

National data networks now being built or planned will be complemented by international networks, and solutions to the technical problems of compatibility are being sought. The Common Market's Euronet, first to be used for scientific and technical data, will have rates that are independent of distance. (Author/BB)

Some districts are experimenting with citizens band radios on their buses. (IRT)

The problem presented by the way in which boundaries are drawn between computing and telecommunication, and the issues of the desirable degrees of monopoly and competition are discussed in relation to the development of information services and their accessibility. (Author/MBR)

Describes the Federal Republic of Germany's broadcast system, which is divided into nine regional broadcast stations. User sponsored on a non-voluntary basis, the two TV networks, ARD and Z DF, provide competition for one another while supplementing the third channel's educational programming. (RAO)

Two discussion-oriented computerized conferencing systems, developed at GTE Laboratories of specific user groups are described. (MBR)

Examines one of broadcast licensees for whom the stated and implied localism policies of the Commission and the courts appear to have been constantly waived, and presents a quantitative analysis of the amount of local news, public affairs, and non-entertainment programming aired by satellite and non-satellite stations. (JEG)

Videoconferencing is used to foster a spirit of unity between branches of a community college.

Discusses how--from the Yellow Pages to videotex--publishing for the mass market is enticing if uncertain in the electronic age. Claims that divestiture has added to the variety of new players eager to enter the field, prominent among whom are the newly divested telephone companies themselves. (JD)

Discusses how, thus far, research and development throughout the new Bell system has faired well through the divestiture, but how the market imperatives on the new Bell Labs and their offspring may eventually affect the spending patterns on innovation. (JD)