Telecommunications involves transmitting audio, video, data, and voice using electromagnetic energy. National telecommunications can refer to companies or associations serving an entire country, as well as government agencies regulating ICT services. It can also designate resources used by a service, such as National Telecommunications Services®.
Telecommunications refers to communication over a distance, and developments in science and technology have greatly increased the ability to transmit and receive over great distances. Telecommunications include the transmission of audio and video, computer data, multimedia, fax images and voice using electromagnetic energy. National telecommunications are the concept of telecommunications systems that serve an entire nation.
In some countries, there is only one company that provides services, at least within a particular telecommunications sector, such as voice, and if so, this company would be a national telecommunications company. One example was Télécommunications d’Haiti SAM (Teleco). In other cases, there are competing companies, but they all serve a market across the country. While not exclusive, these companies could also be referred to as national telecommunications companies. An example would be Verizon®, Sprint® and AT&T® in the United States.
Associations of telecommunications companies can be national in their scope by aggregating the services of their members. This is the case with the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA) in the United States. The members of this association are all small and/or rural telecommunications providers, but although the approximately 580 members are regional, the association serves the entire country.
National Telecommunications is also the focus of national agencies and commissions in multiple countries, which often include the phrase in their names. For example, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) of the Republic of the Philippines is a government regulatory agency that also has quasi-judicial functions. It was formed in 1979 to ensure that information and communication technology (ICT) services are accessible, reliable, affordable and remain viable. In the United States, one example is the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an agency of the United States Department of Commerce. Created in 1978, the agency has the task of advising the President on policies relating to telecommunications and information.
The phrase can also be used to designate resources used by a service. Such is the case with National Telecommunications Services®, which provides basic and political telephone services to policy and public policy clients. The group has an overtly political goal of electing progressive candidates to office.
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