• Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extended term
for information technology (IT) which stresses the role of unified
communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and
wireless signals), computers as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware,
storage, and audio-visual systems, which enable users to access, store, transmit,
and manipulate information.
• The term ICT is also used 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 s