Outline of telecommunication

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to telecommunication:

Contents

• Types of telecommunication
• Types of telecommunication networks
• Aspects of telecommunication transmission
• Telecommunication technology
• Communications media types
• Relationship between media and transmitters
• Multiple access to media
• History of telecommunication
• Major telecommunications equipment manufacturers
• Major telecommunications service providers
• Telecommunication organizations
• Persons influential in telecommunication
• References

Telecommunication – the transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication. In modern times, this process almost always involves the use of electromagnetic waves by transmitters and receivers, but in earlier years it also involved the use of drums and visual signals such as smoke, fire, beacons, semaphore lines and other optical communications.