Telecommunications History

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Across
  1. 1. created to regulate the development of different communication media
  2. 6. misleading or deceptive charges
  3. 7. regulates gas, water, transportation, and telecommunications within a state’s boundaries
  4. 8. instrumental in the purchase of Alaska
  5. 10. first billion dollar company
  6. 14. breakup of AT&T
  7. 15. USA professional membership organization active in creating and promoting standards and specifications
  8. 17. used to fill the gap in the telegraph system
  9. 20. one of the companies created from the Standard Oil breakup
  10. 21. inventor of the telephone: Bell or ____
  11. 22. the practice of changing a consumer's long-distance carrier without the customer's consent
  12. 23. the courts determined these geographic boundaries in 1984
  13. 24. two-way communication
  14. 26. the entire phone network...world wide
Down
  1. 2. head of telegraph operations under President Lincoln
  2. 3. a division of the US gov’t dept. of the Interior, assists industry in developing methods, standards and systems
  3. 4. name of the first mobile phone
  4. 5. developed from 1934-1949
  5. 8. company for which the Sherman Anti-trust Act was created
  6. 9. built the telegraph from Omaha to Sacramento
  7. 11. Agreement that disposed of Western Union Telegraph
  8. 12. chief negotiator for the National Independent Telephone Association
  9. 13. one of the companies created from the AT&T breakup
  10. 16. one of the companies created from the Standard Oil breakup
  11. 18. sending unsolicited e-mail
  12. 19. a plow salesman
  13. 22. communication in only one direction
  14. 25. the lowest common denominator for voice communications