Telephony
noun
The system of transferring voice and sound over a distance, particularly through wires or radio signals.
My job involves dealing with technical issues related to telephony.

Often appears as...
- mobile telephony
- digital telephony
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Technical
noun
The design, construction, and use of telephones.
He is studying telephony to become a network engineer.

Often appears as...
- study telephony
- work in telephony
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Academic
noun
The system of transferring voice and sound over a distance, particularly through wires or radio signals.
My job involves dealing with technical issues related to telephony.

Often appears as...
- mobile telephony
- digital telephony
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The design, construction, and use of telephones.
He is studying telephony to become a network engineer.

Often appears as...
- study telephony
- work in telephony
Usage tips
Academic
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Industry Evolution
Telephony has evolved from traditional landlines to include mobile and internet-based communication.

With the evolution of telephony, we can now make calls over the internet.
Beyond Voice
Modern telephony often involves multimedia elements like video and text messaging, not just voice.

Today's telephony services include features like video conferencing and instant messaging.
Technical Jobs
Telephony is a technical field offering careers in engineering, support, and network management.

She works in telephony, maintaining the company's voice communication systems.
Industry Evolution
Telephony has evolved from traditional landlines to include mobile and internet-based communication.

With the evolution of telephony, we can now make calls over the internet.
Beyond Voice
Modern telephony often involves multimedia elements like video and text messaging, not just voice.

Today's telephony services include features like video conferencing and instant messaging.
Technical Jobs
Telephony is a technical field offering careers in engineering, support, and network management.

She works in telephony, maintaining the company's voice communication systems.
Industry Evolution
Telephony has evolved from traditional landlines to include mobile and internet-based communication.

With the evolution of telephony, we can now make calls over the internet.
Beyond Voice
Modern telephony often involves multimedia elements like video and text messaging, not just voice.

Today's telephony services include features like video conferencing and instant messaging.
Technical Jobs
Telephony is a technical field offering careers in engineering, support, and network management.

She works in telephony, maintaining the company's voice communication systems.
Video examples
Paul Romer: Why the...
rules where businesses earn a small profit, so they have an incentive to sign up more customers. That's the kind of rules that the cellphone company that Nelson purchases his telephony from operates under. The president has seen how those rules worked well. So he tried to change the rules for pricing on electricity,
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Peter van Manen: How can...
as they were being transported to intensive care. Why should we wait until they arrived in the hospital before we started to look? And so we installed a real-time link between the ambulance and the hospital, just using normal 3G telephony to send that data
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Let's crowdsource the...
and mobile telephony along with ubiquitous reality TV matts have spread all around the world so what we'd like to propose is that we use them to involve people from all around the world in an historic first the world's first truly global poll and
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Honor Harger: A history...
to study those noises, to try and find out where they came from, with a view towards building the perfect hardware codec, which would get rid of them so they could think about using radio for the purposes of telephony. Most of the noises
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Actually, the world...
voice calling minutes in the world last year what percentage do you think were accounted for by cross-border phone calls pick a percentage in your own mind answer turns out to be 2 percent if you include Internet telephony you might be
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Charles Leadbeater: The...
where the uncertainty is highest. And when you get a radical innovation, it's often very uncertain how it can be applied. The whole history of telephony is a story of dealing with that uncertainty. The very first landline telephones,
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Bearing witness to the...
mobile phone and mobile telephony is going to be ubiquitous we are for the first time in humanity going to have a global population where each of us is going to be addressable but how does that help me hold people responsible for
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Richard Ledgett: The NSA...
The needle was found by other methods. Isn't there something to that? No, there's actually two programs that are typically implicated in that discussion. One is the section 215 program, the U.S. telephony metadata program,
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Pankaj Ghemawat:...
by cross-border phone calls? Pick a percentage in your own mind. The answer turns out to be two percent. If you include Internet telephony, you might be able to push this number up to six or seven percent,
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Navi Radjou: Creative...
like the C.T. scanner we saw in China. Second Do not reinvent the wheel. Try to leverage existing resources and assets that are widely available, like using mobile telephony to offer clean energy
Video examples
Paul Romer: Why the...
rules where businesses earn a small profit, so they have an incentive to sign up more customers. That's the kind of rules that the cellphone company that Nelson purchases his telephony from operates under. The president has seen how those rules worked well. So he tried to change the rules for pricing on electricity,
Video examples
Peter van Manen: How can...
as they were being transported to intensive care. Why should we wait until they arrived in the hospital before we started to look? And so we installed a real-time link between the ambulance and the hospital, just using normal 3G telephony to send that data
Video examples
Let's crowdsource the...
and mobile telephony along with ubiquitous reality TV matts have spread all around the world so what we'd like to propose is that we use them to involve people from all around the world in an historic first the world's first truly global poll and
Video examples
Honor Harger: A history...
to study those noises, to try and find out where they came from, with a view towards building the perfect hardware codec, which would get rid of them so they could think about using radio for the purposes of telephony. Most of the noises
Video examples
Actually, the world...
voice calling minutes in the world last year what percentage do you think were accounted for by cross-border phone calls pick a percentage in your own mind answer turns out to be 2 percent if you include Internet telephony you might be
Video examples
Charles Leadbeater: The...
where the uncertainty is highest. And when you get a radical innovation, it's often very uncertain how it can be applied. The whole history of telephony is a story of dealing with that uncertainty. The very first landline telephones,
Video examples
Bearing witness to the...
mobile phone and mobile telephony is going to be ubiquitous we are for the first time in humanity going to have a global population where each of us is going to be addressable but how does that help me hold people responsible for
Video examples
Richard Ledgett: The NSA...
The needle was found by other methods. Isn't there something to that? No, there's actually two programs that are typically implicated in that discussion. One is the section 215 program, the U.S. telephony metadata program,
Video examples
Pankaj Ghemawat:...
by cross-border phone calls? Pick a percentage in your own mind. The answer turns out to be two percent. If you include Internet telephony, you might be able to push this number up to six or seven percent,
Video examples
Navi Radjou: Creative...
like the C.T. scanner we saw in China. Second Do not reinvent the wheel. Try to leverage existing resources and assets that are widely available, like using mobile telephony to offer clean energy
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Quote examples
Martin Cooper
American Scientist
The future of cellular telephony is to make people's lives better - the most important way, in my view, will be the opportunity to revolutionise healthcare.

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Shiv Nadar
Indian Businessman
Since Graham Bell came up with telephony, it took 100 years for the way the technology has impacted our lives, the way we perceive the world.

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Dennis Ritchie
American Scientist
My father worked for Bell Labs. Hence, I knew very much about the place. I knew it because also he was involved with telephony.

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Martin Cooper
American Scientist
The future of cellular telephony is to make people's lives better - the most important way, in my view, will be the opportunity to revolutionise healthcare.

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Shiv Nadar
Indian Businessman
Since Graham Bell came up with telephony, it took 100 years for the way the technology has impacted our lives, the way we perceive the world.

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Dennis Ritchie
American Scientist
My father worked for Bell Labs. Hence, I knew very much about the place. I knew it because also he was involved with telephony.

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