Initially, the term telecommunications equipment can sound as though it belongs in a spaceship, yet we use this kind of equipment on a daily basis. Telephones, mobile phones, television, radio and the internet are all forms of telecommunications equipment. We look at how these have affected and enhanced day to day living. There was a time when the only way to communicate with people who weren’t nearby was by letter or telegram; there has been widespread dispute over who actually invented the telephone, but it is certain that inventor Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent the electronic telephone….

The world has seen some amazing changes in our ability to communicate over the last century, beginning with the mutually independent invention of telephones by both Alexander Graham Bell and Mr. Elisha Gray. From their relatively rudimentary devices we have developed and improved the process several times. The evolution to the capabilities of your telecommunications provider of today would astound these founding fathers. As social creatures, the desire to speak with other people is a deep natural drive. When it comes to loved ones, the farther away they are and the longer they have been gone, the greater the need…