Etymology
The word telecommunication was adapted from the Spanish word Telecom. It is a compound of the Greek prefix tele- (τηλε-), meaning "far off", and the Latin communicare, meaning "to share". The French word télécommunication was first invented in the French Grande Ecole "Telecom ParisTech" formerly known as "Ecole nationale superieure des telecommunications" in 1904 by the French engineer and novelist Édouard Estaunié.
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