Sejarah Singkat Telekomunikasi

1837 – Samuel Morse exhibited a working telegraph system.
1843 – Alexander Bain patented a printing telegraph.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell, invented the first telephone.
1880 – first pay telephone
1915 – first transcontinental telephone service and first transatlantic
voice connections.
1947 – transistor invented in Bell Labs
1951 – first direct long distance dialing
1962 – first international satellite telephone call
1968 – Carterfone court decision allowed non-Bell equipment to
connect to Bell System Network
1970 – permitted MCI to provide limited long distance service in
competition to AT&T.
1984 – deregulation of AT&T
1980s – public service of digital networks
1990s – cellular telephones commonplace
2000s – multmedia/broadband communication