Overview#

Telecommunications (or Digital communication or "Electronic Communication") is a "Digital" Communication which is the act of conveying intended meanings from one entity to a recipient through the use of a mutually understood protocol

Telecommunications are defined as "any transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data, or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or in part by a wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectronic or photooptical system that affects interstate or foreign commerce." This includes emails, text messages, and photographs. (RUFADAA)

More Information#

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• 3G
• 3rd Generation Partnership Project
• 5G
• Application Layer
• Authenticated Protected Channel
• Blockchain
• Channel
• Circuit switching
• Communication Surveillance
• Dialed Number Recorder
• Digital communication
• ECHELON
• Edward Snowden
• Electronic Data Interchange
• Electronic Identity Credential
• Email
• Enabler
• End-to-End Communications
• Escape character
• European Telecommunications Standards Institute
• Exchange
• Frame
• Gossip protocol
• ITU Radiocommunication Sector
• Integrated Circuit Card Identifier
• Interexchange Carrier
• Intermediary
• International Direct Dialling
• International Telecommunication Union
• Internet of Things
• Item of Interest
• Local Access and Transport Area
• Local Area Network
• Local Exchange
• Local Exchange Carrier
• Long Distance Provider
• MAINWAY
• Major Industry Identifier
• Manchester code
• Mobile Device
• Motorola Solutions
• Multiple-channel Authentication
• Network
• Observer
• Octet
• Packet
• Packet switching
• Payload
• Phishing
• Phone Line
• Phone Number
• Protocol
• Public Data Network
• Public Land Mobile Network
• Public Switched Telephone Network
• Rich Communication Services
• Round-Trip Time
• Satellite
• Sensor
• Short Message Service
• Signalling System No. 7
• Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
• Telephone Circuit
• Telephone Numbering Plan
• Telephone exchange
• Third-party
• Wide Area Network