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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

I can look back over what I found in the technical books about electricity and telephony and see several other ways for Cuthbert to accomplish the same result.

From Whispering Wires by Henry Leverage




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