The foreign word "telecommunications" belonging German word is telecommunications. However, it is used since the mid-1990s practically only to military facilities and civil protection (civil protection has recently been often of "information and communication" (ICT), speaking) and is almost completely disappeared in the vernacular, as particularly the Use this field operating companies, the word "telecommunications".
In a narrower sense is understood as a data exchange using electrical engineering, electronics, wireless technology and other technology transfer of modern telecommunications today. The first telecommunication services in this sense were called telegraph (telex) and telephony, and remote signaling. Before the advent of computers, there were already designated as telecontrol data transmission services to control plants.
"Telecommunications is the technical process of sending, transmitting and receiving signals by means of telecommunications;" For the purposes of this definition also therefore also radio and TV (analogue and digital), fax, mobile telephony and the Internet and many examples in which also the German lawmakers defined in the Telecommunications Act and used in other legal norms notion of telecommunications.
Telecommunications equipment "technical devices or systems that send messages identifiable as electromagnetic or optical signals that carry, convey, receive, control or can control."telecommunication facilities are now a fundamental part of the infrastructure. For this reason, in order to avoid their spatial disparities providing a common task of spatial development (ie, in practice, a state task). Since the beginning of liberalization (in Germany since 1998) Telecommunications services are provided in competition, primary care is provided by a universal service obligation.
