telephony
noun
te·le·pho·ny
tə-ˈle-fə-nē 
also ˈte-lə-ˌfō-
: the use or operation of an apparatus (such as a telephone) for transmission of sounds as electrical signals between widely removed points
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Of course, Scream was not the first to mix horror and telephony.
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Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 6 June 2025
Schleswig-Holstein is also developing an open source directory service to replace Microsoft's Active Directory and an open source telephony offering.
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2024
With a conformity rare in technology, let alone in perennially fractious telephony, the world’s wireless operators are falling in line behind a 4G standard called LTE, which stands for Long Term Evolution.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2011
For decades afterward and until the advent of internet telephony, Druze families divided by the armistice lines who wanted to communicate with one another did so via megaphone in an area that came to be known as Shouting Hill.
—Uriel Heilman, New York Daily News, 2 Mar. 2025
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Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 6 June 2025
Schleswig-Holstein is also developing an open source directory service to replace Microsoft's Active Directory and an open source telephony offering.
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2024
With a conformity rare in technology, let alone in perennially fractious telephony, the world’s wireless operators are falling in line behind a 4G standard called LTE, which stands for Long Term Evolution.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2011
For decades afterward and until the advent of internet telephony, Druze families divided by the armistice lines who wanted to communicate with one another did so via megaphone in an area that came to be known as Shouting Hill.
—Uriel Heilman, New York Daily News, 2 Mar. 2025
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“Telephony.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telephony. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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