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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

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

But that made her no less helpful to Jessie when the latter had gained her first interest in radio telephony.

From The Campfire Girls on Station Island or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht by Margaret Penrose




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