Telecommunication involves the transmission of information over distances using electronic means, such as cables and radio waves. Key developments in the field include the telegraph, telephone, television, and radio, with significant contributions from inventors like Marconi and Bell. The rise of digital technologies and the Internet has transformed communication by enabling data transmission and reducing limitations on access.
Telecommunication involves the transmission of information over distances using electronic means, such as cables and radio waves. Key developments in the field include the telegraph, telephone, television, and radio, with significant contributions from inventors like Marconi and Bell. The rise of digital technologies and the Internet has transformed communication by enabling data transmission and reducing limitations on access.
Telecommunication involves the transmission of information over distances using electronic means, such as cables and radio waves. Key developments in the field include the telegraph, telephone, television, and radio, with significant contributions from inventors like Marconi and Bell. The rise of digital technologies and the Internet has transformed communication by enabling data transmission and reducing limitations on access.
Telecommunication involves the transmission of information over distances using electronic means, such as cables and radio waves. Key developments in the field include the telegraph, telephone, television, and radio, with significant contributions from inventors like Marconi and Bell. The rise of digital technologies and the Internet has transformed communication by enabling data transmission and reducing limitations on access.
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Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of
information over a distance using electronic means, typically through cables, radio waves, or other communication technologies. These means of transmission may be divided into communication channels for multiplexing, allowing for a single medium to transmit several concurrent communication sessions. Long-distance technologies invented during the 20th and 21st centuries generally use electric power, and include the telegraph, telephone, television, and radio.
Early telecommunication networks used metal wires as the medium for transmitting signals. These networks were used for telegraphy and telephony for many decades. In the first decade of the 20th century, a revolution in wireless communication began with breakthroughs including those made in radio communications by Guglielmo Marconi, who won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics. Other early pioneers in electrical and electronic telecommunications include co-inventors of the telegraph Charles Wheatstone and Samuel Morse, numerous inventors and developers of the telephone including Antonio Meucci, Philipp Reis, Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell, inventors of radio Edwin Armstrong and Lee de Forest, as well as inventors of television like Vladimir K. Zworykin, John Logie Baird and Philo Farnsworth.
Since the 1960s, the proliferation of digital technologies has meant that voice communications have gradually been supplemented by data. The physical limitations of metallic media prompted the development of optical fibre.[1][2][3] The Internet, a technology independent of any given medium, has provided global access to services for individual users and further reduced location and time limitations on communications.
