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
• 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
• 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
• Not just communications systems such as telephony and news media, but vehicles, power plants, and banking systems.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2022
• 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.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024