telephony

Example Sentences

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For Luis, the outwardly dull telephony work has provided the anchor he needs to stay out of crime, something he says ex-gang members he knows in the US struggle with.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 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

The ALOHAnet technologies have since found their way into cellular telephony, Wi-Fi, and even into Ethernet network cables that are by definition not wireless.

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2019

Almost wherever automatic telephony is to be found—and its use is extensive and rapidly growing—the so-called Strowger system is employed.

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