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Alphabet Soup (Acronyms)
Inventors
Acts and Laws
Inventions
Technology
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• BOCs

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• What are Bell Operating Companies?

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• CLECs

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• What are Competitive Local Exchange Carriers?

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• LATA

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• What is a Local access and transport area?

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• MFJ

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• What is the Modified Final Judgment?

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• UNIVAC

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• What is the Universal Automatic Computer?

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• Received the patent for the invention of the
  telephone.

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• What is Alexander Graham Bell?

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• Invented the radio.

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• Who is Marconi?

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• The inventor responsible for inventing frequency
  modulation.

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• Who is Edwin Armstrong?

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• Inventor for the electromagnet and a
  hand-operated switch used with the telegraph.

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• Who is Samuel Morse?

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• The inventor who used punched cards to input data
  into a calculating machine.

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• Who is Herman Hollerith?

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• The regulating body that enforces
  telecommunications regulations.

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• What is the FCC?

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• Name for ATT and its subsidiaries

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• What is MaBell?

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• Allowed independent telephone companies to
  connect to ATTs lines and switching centers.

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• What was the Kingsbury Commitment?

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• Allowed companies to attach devices such as
  answering machines and fax machines to ATT
  telephones.

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• What was the Hush-a-Phone decision?

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• The ruling that ATT would divest itself of all
  22 of its associated operating companies in the
  Bell System.

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• What was the Modified Final Judgment of 1982?

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• The company that turned down the patent of the
  telephone.

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• What is Western Union?

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• The earliest device used for automating
  mathematical calculations.

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• What is an abacus?

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• The machine used to assist with ballistics
  calculations.

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• What is the ENIAC?
• Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer

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• Combines electronic components such as resistors,
  diodes, and transistors on a small silicon disk.

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• What is an integrated circuit?

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• First computer designed for business and not
  merely scientific purposes

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• What was the UNIVAC?
• Universal Automatic Computer

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• Signaling system that used visual cues across
  distances.

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• What is a semaphore?

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• Transmission switching technique that receives
  signals from incoming signals, digitizing each
  into a predetermined sequence, transmitting on
  the same circuit, and then dividing them out to
  eh correct outbound line.

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• What is the time division switching?

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• Type of transmission that provides the
  simultaneous transmission of an indeterminate
  number of multiple signals over one circuit.

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• What is multiplexing?

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• The exchange where multiple local offices
  converge and terminate.

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• What is the tandem switching center?

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• The first satellite to successfully transmit
  television signals and telephone conversations
  across the Atlantic for the first time.

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• What is the Telstar?

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• 24 to 32 transponders

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• What is the typical number of transponders that a
  geosynchronous satellite contains?

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• The broadcast from an earth-based transmitter to
  an orbiting satellite.

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• What is an uplink?

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• Telecommunication equipment that is 23,000 miles
  above the equator.

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• What is a geosynchronous satellite?

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• Receives an uplink, then transmits the signals to
  another earth-based location.

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• What does a transponder do?

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• Earth-based location that receives the
  transmission from a transponder.

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• What is a downlink?

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• 1877

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• What was the year that Bell and two other men
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