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telephony

[tuh-lef-uh-nee] / təˈlɛf ə ni /


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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

“So even though the old technology hasn’t gone away, the logic of mobile telephony exists across our entire society today, even for people who still have landlines.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 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

None of your wireless telephony and wireless telegraphy for me.

From The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy by Mabel Henriette Spielmann


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