Need help with IT terminology

[Avi 12]

Im working on filling out a Govenment application they want to know if i have internet access or digital transmission at my location. i would think they are one and the same, does anyone have a clue as to what the difference might be? i can call them but like anything with gov its a royal pain

[Krdshrk 3,662]

Pretty sure it's referring if you have any means of transferring data digitally - via internet or cell data.  Pretty much the same.  Anything transacted over computer-mediated networks.

[Avi 12]

Pretty sure it's referring if you have any means of transferring data digitally - via internet or cell data.  Pretty much the same.  Anything transacted over computer-mediated networks.

Thanks thats what i thought

[TonyS. 12]

To me "digital transmission" sounds like fax abilities over phone line. A lot, if not most, folks these days have Web access via cell phone.

[Mikeythumbs 1]

If it's an or and you have internet you should be fine. Fun filling out those government applications

[Qel Hoth 33]

To me "digital transmission" sounds like fax abilities over phone line. A lot, if not most, folks these days have Web access via cell phone.

 

Phone lines = analog. Then again this is the government so who knows what they really mean. 

[TonyS. 12]

Phone lines = analog. Then again this is the government so who knows what they really mean. 

 

A phone line is analog but today most fax transmissions are compressed into digital data. The old fax technology was analog frequencies.

[bzer1 15]

Digital transmission...Like a T1, or ethernet, or some other circuit based technology...Perhaps?

[Mikeythumbs 1]

Original post says internet OR digital transmission so if that is the case an he has internet then he is fine and as far as figuring out hat the government means on those applications good luck I have filled put a few and just gone with my best guess and my wife works for the goverment so I'll ask her and her answer is usual ya shrug of the shoulders