Telecommunication networks

[Julian-Dumitrascu]

Which data management network is more useful? The global telephone network or the Internet?
I start from general matters. We can personalise this conversation to make it more useful to you.
I share some views, so that we can communicate first as fellow users of these networks.

Telephone networks started out as cable networks in the USA in 1878. Since 1946, we’ve had some form of wireless telephony. It seems that we started building the Internet in the USA in 1969. It seems that we expanded it to Eurasia in 1988 and to Africa in 1993.

“Telephony” is a Greek word for sending sounds (through devices). The initial device was called a telephone. We use computers as telephones by using microphones and e.g. headphones with them. We can discuss e.g.:

1. Psychological aspects
   1.1 I started using telephones as a child in the 1980s. I started having longer calls as a teenager in the 1990s. Such things can help me understand why one would be fond of telephones.
   I worked on ships of Viking in 2000; I’m still moved when I see river ships. I feel nostalgia and I can understand such psychological aspects.

2. We prefer portable devices when we’re not in a building.
   2.1 We’re in vehicles.
   2.1.1 We can discuss the needs of professional users of vehicles.
   They have already made it easier for drivers to have calls e.g. over the Internet.
   It’s safer to do anything else than operating a vehicle while the vehicle is parked.
   2.1.2 People travel for (many) hours to meet.
   2.1.2.1 Access to the Internet on roads and railways has been improving.
   I think that there will always be places in which one can’t use telecommunication networks.
   When the signal is too weak for exchanging messages over the Internet and one must communicate remotely, one can make a regular telephone call using e.g. a smartphone.
   For when the signal is good enough for using the Internet, we help people to connect devices to the Internet and use safe communication software.

3. When I am in a building, I like using desktop computers.
   Sol Provider Management delivers e.g. computers and furniture to any building.
   Sol Real Estate helps people use rooms for these things.
   Sol Travel helps people use computers in the rooms of their hosts.
   We help people avoid carrying computers.

What benefits do you want from telephony? Discussing this topic helps choose means and methods that increase your related benefit-cost ratio.

4. We find it difficult to see reasons for us to use telephone networks.
   It seems that all our customers and all our providers can interact with us over the Internet, so we agree on what software we use together.
   4.1 To hold someone responsible for their order, we ask that they place it in writing or that they pay before we fulfil their order, which is customary for card payments. One pays remotely usually over the Internet. Telephony does not mean transferring money.
   We fulfil every order as placed. We manage data together with you so that you can hold us responsible for every transaction between Sol and you.
   Telephony does not mean writing. SMS (short text messages) are not designed for placing orders. We would like to use them for nothing, unless you require such messages from us.
   4.2 When somebody wants to communicate with us remotely from outside the Internet, they can reach us using e.g. these telephone numbers once they schedule a talk.

5. We place orders over the Internet.
   5.1 We do not care for developers who want to use telephone networks to sell us software. We give them the memorandum: Your software works over the Internet. We can help you make more of the Internet, so that you make computing more than it is today.

6. It is more probable that you know with whom you’re communicating while you’re using the Internet.
   People usually want to know with whom they’re communicating.
   How do you feel about this topic?

7. On average, the sound quality seems better when we talk over the Internet, e.g. because we use cables with optical fibres instead of air to guide electromagnetic waves.

8. It is easier to schedule e.g. talks over the Internet.
   When one doesn’t schedule a talk, it becomes difficult to have that talk.

9. It is easier to record talks over the Internet.

10. It is easier to keep talks over the Internet private.

You can start a conversation about any related topic. It seems obvious that we can manage information more usefully while using a proper computer program.