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What started with AT&T in the era of the hand-crank telephone more than a 100 years ago is turning into a digital, worldwide telecommunications system that's revolutionized the way we call each other and gather information.

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As digital technology sweeps the telecommunications industry, members are turning to CWA/NETT Academy to train for jobs that are no longer just in the future. They are here today.

With wireless communications outpacing wireline in growth and profit potential, Sprint Nextel and Alltel, which both mainly served rural phone customers, recently decided to spin off their wireline holdings to focus instead on lucrative wireless services.

Every day, Verizon technicians are stringing and burying miles of fiber optic cable but for customers eager to have state-of-the-art Internet, phone and TV service, it can't reach their neighborhoods fast enough.