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The information age has changed the way we live and work. Discover the technology and the people behind modern communications.

Our world of telecommunications

Over the last 2,000 years we have learned to communicate over land, sea and space. But how did it start? And where will ...

Explore some of the ways in which modern telecommunications have had a huge impact on government, business, culture and ...

Explores how telecommunications expanded and matured from 1945 onwards - into microwave, satellite, mobile and then the ...

Look at how we used telecommunications in various ways over the years, and how our feelings about the technology changed...

Telecommunication companies needed to communicate - with the world outside and their own people. The ways in which they...

Explore the first part of the story of telecommunications and look at how the key technologies of telegraph, telephone, ...

A pendulum of ownership and control over the telecommunication channels has swung over the last 150 years: from private ...

Telecommunications has been one of the biggest businesses of the past 100 years. This journey tells the story of some of...

We take for granted that by pressing few buttons on a telephone we can talk to family friends or business associates not...