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Telecommunications is communications over a
distance, generally by electronic means.
Long-distance voice communication was
pioneered 1876 by US inventor Alexander
Graham Bell, when he invented the telephone,
which was made possible by the discovery of
electromagnetism by the English chemist and
physicist Michael Faraday. Today it is
possible to communicate with most countries
by telephone cable, or by satellite or
microwave link, with over 100,000
simultaneous conversations and several
television channels being carried by the
latest satellites.
Subject by: Simon Wiseman