telephony

noun

te·le·pho·ny | \ tə-ˈle-fə-nē

also ˈte-lə-ˌfō- \

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

Examples of telephony in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web If someone joins a Zoom meeting through a regular phone call, for example, Zoom can't extend its encryption to the legacy telephony network. — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, "So Wait, How Encrypted Are Zoom Meetings Really?," 3 Apr. 2020 For in every other realm, the country’s largest companies have midwifed this societal retreat from telephony. — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, "Phones Are the Best Technology," 4 Feb. 2020 In Russia, a rash of Telegram account breaches has led some researchers to believe that hackers are gaining access through telephony network hacking. — Wired, "Security News This Week: 15 Million Iranian Bank Accounts Were Breached," 14 Dec. 2019 This early version of internet telephony — the technology that came to be known as voice over IP — helped pave the way for the delivery of voice, and eventually video, across the internet. — Katie Hafner, New York Times, "Danny Cohen, Who Helped Set the Stage for a Digital Era, Dies at 81," 16 Aug. 2019 Estonia—the birthplace of Skype, an internet-telephony app—has been a leader in digitising public services, such as filing taxes and voting. — The Economist, "High internet use and state support help countries ditch cash," 1 Aug. 2019 But Caruana says that he was also drawn to speak at Defcon because elevators represent one of the last frontiers of phreaking in a world where the quirks of analog telephony have been largely replaced by digital equipment. — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, "Inside the Hidden World of Elevator Phone Phreaking," 9 Aug. 2019 Wu notes that while Microsoft’s rise and fall was relatively quick, AT&T held onto its telephony monopoly for decades, and Facebook could persist as well. — Adi Robertson, The Verge, "How the antitrust battles of the ‘90s set the stage for today’s tech giants," 6 Sep. 2018

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