telephony

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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

We jumped directly from human operators to something called the panel switch, a near-miracle of telephony in the 1910s and ’20s.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024

“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

The foregoing are problems of making telegraphy a by-product of telephony.

From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by McMeen, Samuel