1-What is telecommunications?
The simplest kind is when two computers are connected together over a phone line to share data. The data may be a chat between two users, a document going from one computer to the other.
2-Describe some typical uses of telecommunications using computers.
Paying bills, doing in-depeth research on a topic, to just chatting with other computer users.
9- How many different characters can be represented during data communication if your modem software is set for 7 data bits ? For 8 bits?
7 data bits-128 characters
8 data bits-256 characters
15-What is the relationship between communication speed and cost of the commmunication line?
You need to tell the software at which speed to work at. The software will then send the proper commands to the modem to set that speed. The modems at each end of a connection must be running at the same speed.
16-Compare the relative speeds of typical local area networks with that of typical communication connections for wide area networks.
Even the wide area network's faster communication links operate rather slowly compared with the local area netwrok speeds to which users have become accustomed.