COMN 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Optical Fiber Cable, Long-Distance Calling

• School: York University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMN 1000
• Professor: David Skinner

Document Summary

Seen as part of information highway web of computers, fibre. Convergence is the bringing together of text, voice, data, video and sound into a single medium (ie. radio, interenet) optic cable, satellites, databases, etc. which is producting an. Media have developed separately and in canada are dominated by foreign mainly american producers. Government has attempted to promote growth of canadian communication systems and canadian cultural sovereignty (sovereignty: which is the control over the circulation of ideas and values that form our culture or ways of life) Tele(at a distance) communications (make things common): therefore telecommunications means to make things common at a distance. Started with the telegraph, telephones, satellite communications, wireless, data, cell phone, satellite, internet. of intelligence by any wire, cable, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic system ,or by any similar technical system (p368) Most telecommunications companies are common carriers pg.