Nigel Linge is Professor of

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at the

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. He is a specialist in

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and telecommunications heritage.

Early life

Linge was educated at Wolsingham Comprehensive School and then at the

where he obtained a degree in

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in 1983. He subsequently completed his

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there in 1987 for a thesis on the subject of "The interconnection of local area networks using bridges".

Career

Linge is Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Salford. He is a specialist in

and

telecommunications heritage Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information over a distance using electronic means, typically through cables, radio waves, or other communication technologies. These means of ...

about which he has written two books with Andy Sutton. He is a Chartered Engineer and was elected Fellow of the

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, Fellow of the

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, and Fellow of the

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Selected publications

* ''30 Years of Mobile Phones in the UK''. Amberley Publishing, 2015. (With Andy Sutton) * ''The British Phonebox''. Amberley Publishing, 2017. (With Andy Sutton)

References

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