Like air and water, telecom is everywhere. What makes telecom so important and almost omnipresent in our world? Let us try understanding telecom in simple terms.

What is telecom?

Telecom is an acronym for telecommunication. Let’s look at the two words that make the term.

Tele + Communication = Telecommunication

The term ‘tele’ means distant or far. Thus, telecommunication means communication over a distance. In the current times, telecommunication is referred to the communication where signals travel over a distance using various technologies as the carrier. The mobile phone and the television are a couple of basic examples of telecom.

What comes under telecom?

The world is becoming a smaller place by the day with different ways of communication. Telecom is bridging the gap between continents. Telecom covers almost all ways of communication over a distance. Here are a few examples of telecommunication:

• The telephone
• The radio
• The television
• The mobile phone
• The satellite phone
• The internet
• Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP)

How does telecom affect our lives?

The telecom examples listed in the previous section should give you an idea of how all of are affected by telecom. Telecommunication had started way before the emergence of the modern technologies. Morse code is one of the earlier examples of telecommunication.

Today, telecommunication is a necessity in order to survive in the world. Businesses, diplomatic relationships, and even our personal lives depend on the means of telecommunication.

Final word

If the means and technologies of telecom were to make a sudden exit from our lives, we would be back to the primitive world where people in one part lived in complete isolation of people in another part.

Keep coming back to this blog for explanations, news, and views on telecommunication.

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