How to Use telephony in a Sentence

telephony

noun

• In part, this is simply a function of the way mobile telephony works.
  — Longreads, 14 June 2017
• The rise of videochat also amplified the decline in telephony.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2022
• With so many employees working from home right now, the market for telephony headsets is on fire.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• Confirm your telephony setup has multiple lines or is set up on VoIP.
  — Adam Ahmad, Forbes, 7 May 2021
• Before its breakup, AT&T had a monopoly on long-distance telephony, local calling and all equipment that could be plugged into a phone jack.
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Oct. 2021
• The company coined the term hardware-as-a-service because Zoom expects to disrupt nearly every area of telephony.
  — Beth Kindig, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
• Building an affordable service that works everywhere on the planet has been the dream of mobile telephony since its early days.
  — Yang Jie, wsj.com, 24 Apr. 2023
• In terms of sounding human, the restaurant demonstration was all being done with standard telephony gear and the ultra-crappy voice quality that comes with it.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 27 June 2018
• The situation today is reminiscent of the telephony system back in the ‘50s.
  — Adi Ruppin, Forbes, 11 June 2021
• 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, 16 Aug. 2019
• The ’not-an-iPhone’ media player with almost all the benefits of the iPhone without the telephony circuits is currently in its seventh generation.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• 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.
  — Verne Kopytoff, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2017
• But there was science and engineering in Schwartz’s future: telephony.
  — Llewellyn King, Forbes, 1 May 2022
• 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, 3 Apr. 2020
• That’s what made postal mail, telephony, email, and later Facebook and Instagram so effective (and valuable): their ubiquity.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2022
• 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.
  — The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
• With only one in five having access to broadband and only a third having access to mobile telephony in SSA, the market opportunity is there.
  — Radu Magdin, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• In Russia, a rash of Telegram account breaches has led some researchers to believe that hackers are gaining access through telephony network hacking.
  — Wired, 14 Dec. 2019
• Rakuten’s move into mobile telephony fits into this picture.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• For in every other realm, the country’s largest companies have midwifed this societal retreat from telephony.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2020
• Monitor the behavior of initial adopters to understand the implications on face-to-face, telephony and online channels.
  — Dax Grant, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• To date, only clients of Telefónica’s Movistar telephony service could access the offer.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
• Facebook is much more than facebook.com, though; it’s also Instagram and Messenger and, more importantly, WhatsApp, a service that has become the de facto telephony and text-messaging system in much of the world.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2021
• Yet the quests for computer networks and mobile telephony weren't motivated chiefly by good intentions.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2014
• 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, 1 Aug. 2019
• In the Vail model, the customer pays a monthly fee for telephony service, and the service provider assumes responsibility for operations.
  — Yaakov Stein, Forbes, 15 July 2022
• The Android emergency call system will now only consider simpler telephony providers that plug into the default phone app, like your carrier account.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2022
• Hawkins had reconsidered his work on the Palm VII and believed that the next step should actually be full telephony, but the large incumbent wireless carriers had little interest in working with a new company.
  — Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2024
• 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, 9 Aug. 2019
• Railways, electricity power grids, telephony, air travel, early-stage computing, the internet and the advent of the mobile phone — followed by the now-ubiquitous smartphone — are examples of such leaps.
  — Mark Cameron, Forbes, 11 June 2021

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024