Telecommunications is a fascinating, fast paced industry that influences every aspect of our daily life like normal voice phone calls, connectivity to the Internet, satellite communications, surfing the web, fax transmissions, video conferencing, high speed data communications, and cable tv.
It started with first public demonstration of Morse's electric telegraph, Baltimore to Washington in 1844. In 1876 - - Alexander Graham Bell files his patent application. First telephone patent (U.S. No. 174,465) allowed and issued to Bell on March 7th. - - March 10th, Bell speaks the first complete sentence transmitted by variable resistance transmitter ... "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you!". The world's first two way long distance telephone conversation over an outdoor wire (borrowed telegraph line) takes place between Cambridgeport and Boston, Massachusetts between Bell and Watson.
The field of telecommunication is no doubt one of the most exciting occupational fields that modern society has to offer. New technology is constantly being developed and finds its applications in the technical systems that make up a telecommunications network. This creates opportunities for developing existing services further, and introducing completely new ones - for the benefit of customers and society as a whole. The telecommunication industry is often referred to as an "enabling industry". That is, it creates opportunities for societal development in the broadest sense.
In the current day scenario, there are lot of telecommucations technologies evolved and used by people all over the world. Wireless technologies like GSM, CDMA, TDMA, UMTS, GPRS and latest technlogy 3G growing at a fast pace promising high speed data communications. This web site is an atempt to collect various resources related to telecom (mostly wireless) which are scattered over the web.
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Wikepedia Telecommunications
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