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What Are Telecommunications?

When you think of the term telecommunications, you immediately probably flash into your mind a visually bright translucent blue light traversing rapidly down a fiber optic wire, your smartphone lighting up to go web browsing and texting, or perhaps a simple microwave dish transmitting a television signal. All these mental images are true to what telecommunications are, however the term itself and it’s definition have been ongoing far longer than many may think.

Telecommunications Didn’t Begin With the Phone …

While Alexander Graham Bell invented the first phone and made possible for the first phone service in the late 1800′s, he did not invent the concept of communications which dates back well into the beginning of man, far further back in time. Yes, the first Morse code transmissions and first phone calls where a technological feat, but not the beginning.

Telecommunications by definition means to communicate over a distance by means of a wire cable, telegraph, telephone, or broadcast. Broadcast within this definition is where the true meaning and beginning of telecommunications began. Broadcast is best defined as to send out or communicate. The term tele means to or at a distance.

One of the early methods of telecommunications were smoke signals used by Indians to warn over distances of advancing dangers to fellow tribesmen but surprisingly were not the earliest method. Actually it was in 1150 A.D. that  a much greater innovation was created known as the homing or carrier pigeon which would fly from one destination to another carrying a small message tied to it’s ankle.  WWI was actually helped by the homing pigeon on the allies side and helped give vital information from trench to trench.

It is in this modern day and age that we now have access to much more modern devices to help us communicate over distances such as computers and phones. Everyday we use a form of telecommunications in our daily lives. Email, websites, instant messaging, voice over Internet, SMS texting, watching television, posting to MySpace and FaceBook, tweeting over Twitter, streaming videos, streaming music, and more are all a form of telecommunications. So even your Internet service is officially a form of telecommunications.

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