Definition of telephony
: 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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The biggest consumer hits in India have been goods and services that offer stonking value: scooters and mobile telephony have grown fast, but only after prices tumbled.
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In the era when communications meant telephony, every call went through, and your phone company could not cut off your call or edit the content of your conversations.
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The release of a working CDMA telephony stack shows that Microsoft still hasn't given up on the idea of some kind of Windows device offering some kind of phone-like capabilities.
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That’s how iPhone rose to prominence, after all: by ripping a hole in popular understanding of mobile telephony and introducing a totally new paradigm.
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In part, this is simply a function of the way mobile telephony works.
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The challenges now facing Verizon and AT&T—fierce competition from budget mobile operators and the convergence of telephony with broadband and TV—have dogged the European market for some years.
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First Known Use of telephony
1877
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Definition of telephony for English Language Learners
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: the use of a telephone system to send and receive sounds over long distances
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