The Telecommunications Act of 1996 made extensive revisions to the "Title II" provisions regarding common carriers and repealed the judicial 1982 AT&T consent decree (often referred to as the "modification of final judgment" or "MFJ") that effectuated the breakup of AT&T's Bell System.
The novel describes the struggles of a proud and taciturn carrier, John Gourlay, against the spiteful comments and petty machinations of the envious and idle villagers of Barbie (the "bodies").
In the original deed, John Dyckson is described as a "Caryer", which in the West Midlands at this time, when roads were nothing more than hollow-ways and bridle paths, implied that he owned several trains of pack-horses.
Common Era | Book of Common Prayer | aircraft carrier | Common | Court of Common Pleas | Common (rapper) | Boston Common | Common Moorhen | Chief Justice of the Common Pleas | Carrier Corporation | carrier | Ohio Courts of Common Pleas | Common Sense Media | Carrier | Common Lisp | Common fig | Fanfare for the Common Man | Common land | Common Chaffinch | Common Cause | Common Quail | Common European Framework of Reference for Languages | Common Emerald | Common Blackbird | Common Admission Test | RAF Greenham Common | Common Kingfisher | Common Eider | Clapham Common | armoured personnel carrier |
One of the railroad's steam engines, former COER CLC 2-8-0 #17, is most widely known for holding the historic title as the last operating common carrier steam locomotive in America.
The system could attach up to 128 asynchronous terminals, nominally at speeds of up to "3000 bits per second", but usually limited to the 300 bits per second supported by standard common-carrier facilities of the time.
The railway itself is a standard gauge common carrier railroad that operates in interchange with Canadian National Railway (formerly a connection to Wisconsin Central Ltd.) This gives the East Troy electric railroad the ability to pick up and deliver freight (including fertilizer for the Farmers Co-op, sand for the local Ready-Mix, and lumber and steel tubing) to the village of East Troy.