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telephony

[tuh-lef-uh-nee] / təˈlɛf ə ni /


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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

“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

Conecel signed a concession with Ecuador in 2008 to operate its mobile telephony market until Aug. 26, 2023 with hundreds of millions of dollars in planned investments.

From Reuters • Aug. 22, 2023

“Legacy” networks that transmit calls the way they did before the internet revolutionized telephony aren’t covered.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2022

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