telephony
noun
te·le·pho·ny
tə-ˈle-fə-nē 
also ˈte-lə-ˌfō-
: the use or operation of an apparatus (such as a telephone) for transmission of sounds as electrical signals between widely removed points
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Other technologies covered by the EEA include computers and operating systems, smartphones, ATMs, ticketing systems, television and telephony services, e-books and transportation services.
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Gus Alexiou, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
And when that occurred, video telephony became simply a software problem.
—Thomas Wiegand, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2011
Sullivan, a video technology architect at Microsoft, began working on video telephony 20 years ago at PictureTel Corp.
—Thomas Wiegand, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2011
From there, Huawei expanded into selling and manufacturing the guts of telephony.
—Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2020
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Gus Alexiou, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
And when that occurred, video telephony became simply a software problem.
—Thomas Wiegand, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2011
Sullivan, a video technology architect at Microsoft, began working on video telephony 20 years ago at PictureTel Corp.
—Thomas Wiegand, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2011
From there, Huawei expanded into selling and manufacturing the guts of telephony.
—Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2020
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“Telephony.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telephony. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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