A telephone company (or telco) provides telecommunications Telecommunication is transmission over a distance for the purpose of communication. In earlier times, this may have involved the use of smoke signals, drums, semaphore, flags or heliograph. In modern times, telecommunication typically involves the use of electronic devices such as the telephone, television, radio or computer. Early inventors in services such as telephony In telecommunication, telephony encompasses the general use of equipment to provide voice communication over distances, specifically by connecting telephones to each other and data communications Computer networking is the engineering discipline concerned with communication between computer systems or devices. Networking, routers, routing protocols, and networking over the public Internet have their specifications defined in documents called RFCs. Computer networking is sometimes considered a sub-discipline of telecommunications, computer. Most of the largest telcos, whatever their origins, are or were at one time nationalized or state-regulated monopolies In economics, a monopoly (from Greek monos / μονος + polein / πωλειν (to sell)) exists when a specific individual or an enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product or service to determine significantly the terms on which other individuals shall have access to it.[clarification needed] Monopolies are thus characterized by[citation needed]. These monopolies are often referred to, primarily in Europe, as PTTs A postal, telegraph, and telephone service is or was a government agency responsible for postal mail, telegraph, and telephone services. Such monopolies existed in many countries, though not in North America or Japan. Many PTTs have been partially or completely privatized in recent years. In some of those privatizations, the PTT was renamed.
Telcos are also known as common carriers A common carrier is a business that transports people, goods, or services and offers its services to the general public under license or authority provided by a regulatory body. The regulatory body has usually been granted “ministerial authority” by the legislation which created it. And it may create, interpret and enforce its regulations upon, and in the United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the as local exchange carriers In the United States, wireline telephone companies are divided into two large categories: long distance and local (local exchange carrier, or LECs). This structure is a result of 1984 divestiture of then regulated monopoly carrier American Telephone & Telegraph. Local telephone companies at the time of the divestiture are also known as. With the advent of cellular telephony Most current mobile phones connect to a cellular network of base stations , which is in turn interconnected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) (the exception is satellite phones), telcos now include wireless carriers A mobile network operator , also known as mobile phone operator (or simply mobile operator or mobo ), carrier service provider (CSP), wireless service provider, wireless carrier, mobile phone operator, or cellular company, is a telephone company that provides services for mobile phone subscribers, or network operators A mobile network operator , also known as mobile phone operator (or simply mobile operator or mobo ), carrier service provider (CSP), wireless service provider, wireless carrier, mobile phone operator, or cellular company, is a telephone company that provides services for mobile phone subscribers.
Most telcos now also function as internet service providers An Internet service provider , also sometimes referred to as an Internet access provider (IAP), is a company that offers its customers access to the Internet. The ISP connects to its customers using a data transmission technology appropriate for delivering Internet Protocol datagrams, such as dial-up, DSL, cable modem, wireless or dedicated high- (ISPs), and the distinction between telco and ISP may disappear completely over time, as the current trend for supplier convergence Supplier convergence is a term used to describe the ongoing trend of companies offering a combination of services or products that were previously supplied by separate companies. It is not to be confused with product convergence, where one product combines and replaces several others; rather, supplier convergence happens primarily through mergers in the industry continues.
Telephone companies have a range of sizes. Microtelco is a small-scale telecom operator that combine local entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is the act of being an entrepreneur, which is a French word meaning "one who undertakes an endeavor". Entrepreneurs assemble resources including innovations, finance and business acumen in an effort to transform innovations into economic goods. This may result in new organizations or may be part of revitalizing mature, new business models A business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value - economic, social, or other forms of value. The term business model is thus used for a broad range of informal and formal descriptions to represent core aspects of a business, including purpose, offerings, strategies, infrastructure,, and low-cost technologies to offer ICT Information and communication technologies is an umbrella term that covers all technical means for processing and communicating information. While this technically encompasses pre-digital technologies, including paper-based writing, it is most often used to describe digital technologies including methods for communication (communication protocols, services in areas of little interest to large operators.[1] See Village telco A Village telco is a community based telephone network. It is based on a suite of open source applications that enable entrepreneurs to set up and operate a telephone service in a specific area or supporting the needs of a specific community
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On the American comedy program Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night sketch comedy and variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975, under a slightly different title. The show features a regular cast of comedy actors, joined by a guest host and musical act. The show is broadcast live in the Central and Eastern time zones (with a time delay in, guest host comedian A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy. A comedian who addresses an audience directly is called a stand-up comic Lily Tomlin Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer. She has won multiple awards from many quarters, including Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award and has also been nominated for an Academy Award once satirized the telephone industry (and the country's then-dominant Bell System The Bell System was the AT&T monopoly that provided telephone service in the United States from 1877 to 1984. In 1984, the company was broken up into separate companies, by a Federal mandate in particular) with a skit in which she played one of her trademark characters, telephone operator With the development of computerized telephone dialing systems, many telephone calls which previously required a live operator can be placed automatically by the calling party without additional human intervention. Before the advent of automatic exchanges, an operator's assistance was required for anything other than calling telephones across a Ernestine. In the skit, she disconnects the phone service for a large area, and utters the now-famous quote:
- "We don't care.
- We don't have to.
- We're the phone company."
In the satirical 1967 film The President's Analyst, "TPC, The Phone Company," is depicted as plotting to enslave humanity by replacing landlines A landline was originally an overland telegraph wire, as opposed to an undersea cable. Currently, landline (or main line or fixed-line) refers to a telephone line which travels through a solid medium, either metal wire or optical fibre, as distinguished from a mobile cellular line, where transmission is via radio waves. Landlines usually have a with cell phones A mobile phone is a long-range, electronic device used for mobile telecommunications over a cellular network of specialized base stations known as cell sites. Cell phones differ from cordless telephones, which only offer telephony service within a limited range, e.g. within a home or an office, through a fixed line and a base station owned by the.
See also
- Alexander Graham Bell honors and tributes Alexander Graham Bell received numerous tributes during his life, and new awards were subsequently named for him posthumously
- The Phone Company It is the only grandfathered user of the .int domain. It takes its name from the similarly named organisation in the film The President's Analyst
- PSTN The public switched telephone network is the network of the world's public circuit-switched telephone networks, in much the same way that the Internet is the network of the world's public IP-based packet-switched networks. Originally a network of fixed-line analog telephone systems, the PSTN is now almost entirely digital and includes mobile as
- VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol is a general term for a family of transmission technologies for delivery of voice communications over IP networks such as the Internet or other packet-switched networks. Other terms frequently encountered and synonymous with VoIP are IP telephony, Internet telephony, voice over broadband (VoBB), broadband telephony, Voice over Internet Protocol
- ITSP An ITSP offers an Internet data service for making telephone calls using VoIP (Voice over IP) technology. Most ITSPs use SIP, H.323, or IAX (although H.323 use is declining) for transmitting telephone calls as IP data packets. Customers may use traditional telephones with an analog telephony adapter (ATA) providing RJ11 to Ethernet connection Internet Telephony Service Provider
- CLEC A Competitive Local Exchange Carrier , in the United States, is a telecommunications provider company (sometimes called a "carrier") that competes with other, already established carriers (generally the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC))
- ILEC ILEC, short for incumbent local exchange carrier, is a local telephone company in the United States that was in existence at the time of the break up of AT&T into the Regional Bell Operating Companies , also known as the "Baby Bells." The ILEC is the former Bell System or Independent Telephone Company responsible for providing local
- RBOC The Regional Bell Operating Companies are the result of the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust suit against the former American Telephone & Telegraph Company (later known as AT&T Corp.)
- List of telephone operating companies Categories: Lists of companies by industry | Telecommunications companies
- List of mobile network operators This is a list of mobile phone network operating companies. For a more comprehensive list of UMTS and GSM operators, see Mobile Network Code
- Mobile network operator A mobile network operator , also known as mobile phone operator (or simply mobile operator or mobo ), carrier service provider (CSP), wireless service provider, wireless carrier, mobile phone operator, or cellular company, is a telephone company that provides services for mobile phone subscribers
References
- ^ Hernan Galperin, François Bar (2006). The Microtelco Opportunity: Evidence from Latin America. University of Southern California. pp. 30. http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~fbar/Publications/Microtelcos-Galperin-Bar-ITID-3_2.pdf.
External links
- Village Telco - site about microtelcos
Categories: Telecommunications companies Categories: Telecommunications | Information technology companies | Public utilities Public utilities are typically defined as companies that supply what are considered basic (essential) services to homes and businesses, such as electricity, gas, telephone, water and sewer connections. They should not be confused with non-connective services such as cellular telephone companies, nor to optional services such as satellite dish or
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The reason for that is we need to provide a final list of numbers to the company running the TTH. A: We expect the TTH to last about an hour and a half. ...
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Q. Yesterday night I heard several loud screams from children nearby my neighborhood, around 11:30pm, the screams became louder, and I was scared so I called 911 to see what was that? An operator answered me and I told her the situation, I kept talking about 10 minutes explaining her all the situation, after a while the police came immediately and saw some kids hanging around from a tree that were traped playing a game, the kids were rescued and well I was so scared! But thanks God anything bad happened. But now the situation is that I've made several long-distance calls, and I also made like 20 international calls. And I figure out that my phone bill right now (not due) is $263.08, plus the 911 call!!! I'm very worried!!! Do are they going… [cont.]
Asked by pp_032m - Tue Jun 13 19:01:37 2006 - - 9 Answers - 0 Comments
A. No they don't charge you anything. It's an emergency number in which they are not going to charge you anything for your call. If you can see your phone bill, you will se in the Goverment Mandated Charges: A fee of $0.50 (in some states higher) for the 911 Emergency Recovery Fee, that's a fee that you pay to maintain the recovery of the 911 emergency calls. So don't be worried, your phone will be at the exact amount that you said.
Answered by Rishi - Sat Jun 24 20:15:34 2006
