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This article provides information about the Significance of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in the Context of Telecommunication Network !
The greatest advantage of ICTs is the reach and low cost of technology and data transmission. Technically, every individual can have a private or public access to a data terminal, which connects him to each and every individual in the world. Knowledge dissemination and knowledge sharing in knowledge societies depend on ICT infrastructure, which mainly include tele-communications, computer-mediated communication — the Internet and mass media of communication. Here particularly, telecommunication network is discussed to identify the significance of ICT.
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Telecommunication network is a key facilitator to knowledge society. Telecommunications system is one of the most complex systems ever built by the humankind. It has penetrated to every aspect of human life. In the 19th century, the invention of the telegraph and the telephone forever changed how messages moved around the world.
Telephony made possible virtually instantaneous two- way communication between any two places in the planet connected by appropriate wiring and switching devices. In the beginning most of the telephony networks were developed as public monopolies, though US was an exception. Extensive international organisational arrangements were established to ensure interconnectivity through common networks standards.
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and related Treaty arrangements represent some of the first attempts to develop effective forms of international governance. Since 1980s governments in all countries have come under increasing pressure to commercialise, privatise and deregulate their tele communications industries and by late 1990s virtually all national telephone networks have been at least partly privatised and opened up to national and international competition. This resulted in drastic decreases in the price of international communications services and thereby promoting faster and cheaper knowledge dissemination.
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Telecommunications is now but one form of the processing information; transmission and linkage technologies are increasingly diversified and integrated into computer-operated networks. The latest development in the telecommunication technology, the cellular or mobile phones shows a convergence of different communication technologies.
Although the cell phones, or at least the technology behind them, have been around since the 1960s, tremendous technological improvements in cell phones started happening for the last one-decade and half. Sending images, texts messages and, of course, sound. Every month, it seems, a new cell phone comes out that’s “smarter” than the last in its ability to gather and transmit a growing amount of data: voice, images, news and more. Of late technologies of photography, broadcasting, audio system and Internet all converged into one gadget of cellular phone.