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'Quantum communications' isn't a real thing outside of scifi (and generally the crappier kind).

It's sometimes (inaccurately) used to describe quantum entanglement (or quantum encryption) but it doesn't actually allow for the transfer of information.

It can be used for quantum encryption but the actual information transfer has to take place over a traditional medium. When you hear those stories about quantum teleportation and such that is generally what they are talking about.



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