Telephony
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In telecommunication, telephony encompasses the general use of equipment to provide voice communication over distances, specifically by connecting telephones to each other.
Fields
- Landline
- Mobile phone
- Optical
- Answering machine
- Caller ID
- Communications satellites
- Fibre-optical
- Free-space optical
- ISDN
- Mobile phone signal
- POTS
- PSTN
- Submarine cables
- VoIP
- Missed call
- Misdialed call
- Nuisance call
- Phone tag
- Fax transmission
- Telephone calls
- Telephone newspapers
- Théâtrophone
- Video calls
See also
- List of telephony terminology
- History of the telephone
- Invention of the telephone
- Push-button telephone
- Telephone
- Videotelephony
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