telephony
Americannoun
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the construction or operation of telephones or telephonic systems.
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a system of telecommunications in which telephonic equipment is employed in the transmission of speech or other sound between points, with or without the use of wires.
noun
Etymology
Origin of telephony
Example Sentences
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Las Vegas: IBM unveiled a device that merged telephony and computing in 1992 at a Las Vegas trade show, previewing the coming mobile era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Also applied by Norway and Denmark, it considers national infrastructure such as the internet and telephony, energy generation and distribution, road networks, and secure supplies of food, medicine as parts of a total defence system.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2025
“Legacy” networks that transmit calls the way they did before the internet revolutionized telephony aren’t covered.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2022
The collapse was caused by a software malfunction when the company was carrying out maintenance work on its telephony platform for business customers, he said.
From Reuters ● Jul. 14, 2021
It appears, as we have said, in every successful automatic system capable of serving more than one small group of lines, and until it was evolved automatic telephony was not a success.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Samuel McMeen
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