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Information and communication technology (ICT)

Information and communication technology (ICT) is an extended term for information technology (IT) which stresses the role of unified communications, uses to refer to the convergence of audio-visual and telephone networks with computer networks through a single cabling or link system. There are large economic incentives (huge cost savings due to elimination of the telephone network) to merge the telephone network with the computer network system using a single unified system of cabling, signal distribution and management.