Definition of "telecommunications" []

• The science and technology of communication at a distance, especially the electronic transmission of signals; telecommunication (noun)
• The systems used in transmitting such signals (noun)
• Plural form of telecommunication. (noun)

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• "It's interesting to note that Canada's world leadership in telecommunications is traceable not only back to Alexander Graham Bell."
• "There really may not be a need for all the access, the structure by which the telecommunications is able to feed itself ends up increasing the network with sometimes less understanding and room for the social exchange."
• "During my work in telecommunications I've watched a tradition-bound corporation with its feet firmly in the analog/digital world shaken up by the advent of network-based Internet communications."