Cellular telephone service has certainly become more importa

Cellular telephone service has certainly become more important vis-à-vis wired telephone service over the past decade. Will this trend continue? How will the trend toward cellular service be affected by other developments in telephony such as massive increases in bandwidth through fiber-optic technology and the wider use of telephony over the Internet?

Solution

Communications at a distance, including voice and data:

Three Major Segments of Telecom Industry:

Example: AT&T:

Five primary reasons for networking:

Sharing of data:

Distributed data processing and client/server systems:

Distributed data processing

Enhanced communications: