Showing posts with label attenuation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label attenuation. Show all posts

May 13, 2010

Hugill, Global Communications

Peter Hugill, Global Communications since 1844 (1999)

Attentuation (weakening of signal over longer lines)
Switching 
Transmission
Batteries

Telephony was first an urban phenomenon.

Europe: state owns all PTTs [= Post, Telegraph, Telephones]
USA: different organisations operate PTTs
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