CCITT
Comité Consultatif Internationale de Télégraphique et Téléphonique (International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee), originally, an agency of the International Telecommunications Union ...
Federal Regulatory Agencies.
The first federal regulatory agency was the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC). Created in 1887 after decades of controversy over “the railroad problem,” the ICC in many ways served as a ...
public Broadcasting.
Throughout their history, public radio and television have struggled to survive in a minimally regulated broadcasting system dominated by commercial interests. Although educational radio stations ...
Satellite Communications.
Satellite communication was the only truly commercial space technology to be developed in the first forty years or so after the beginning of the space age in 1957. Perhaps the ...
televangelism.
Chiefly in the US, an evangelical preacher who appears regularly on television to promote beliefs and appeal for funds.