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Describe the major changes that have occurred in global communication systems and assess how theses have helped to integrate the world economically and socially.
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Describe the major changes that have occurred in global communication systems and assess how theses have helped to integrate the world economically and socially. In today's world, global communication systems are playing a major role in helping to integrate the world economically and socially. This has led to the terms globalization which refers to the interconnected state of the world in which goods, services and information are distributed around the world with no borders. Global communications have been improving at an alarming rate. There are now 300 commercial geostationary satellites released each year which can each handle tens of thousand phone calls simultaneously and broadcast several television stations. This had facilitated the growth of internet which by 1993 had 1.3 million users, 1997 - 20 million users and by 2001 over 300 million users around the world. The combination of mass media such as television, radio, internet and movies are...
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