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unusual facts about telephony



Astute Solutions

As the company grew, it developed applications for Web-based customer service, telephony (CTI, IP telephony, and multichannel ACD), multichannel interaction management (Web, e-mail, and chat), and customer feedback reporting.

BHB CABLE TV

The main activity of BHB CABLE TV is the provision of cable and digital television, cable internet access and fixed telephony in the following Bosnian cities: Tuzla, Lukavac, Kladanj, Gračanica, Brčko, Doboj Istok, Novi Travnik, Jajce, Mrkonjić Grad, Sanski Most and Velika Kladuša.

BT Group

Ribbit provides Adobe Flash/Flex APIs, allowing web developers to incorporate telephony features into their software as a service (SaaS) applications.

Chaos Computer Club

The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany has ruled that the police may only use such programs for telephony wiretapping, and for no other purpose, and that this restriction should be enforced through technical and legal means.

Coral 66

A variant of Coral 66 was developed during the late 1970s/early 1980s by the British GPO, in conjunction with GEC, STC and Plessey, for use on the System X digital telephone exchange control computers, known as PO-CORAL.

Dagsbrún

, as well as most of the Icelandic media company Norðurljós, making it the largest corporate network provider in Iceland, offering mobile and fixed telephony and high-quality data networking, with a large footprint in the residential broadband and TV market.

Demarcation

Demarcation point, in telephony, the point at which the telephone company network ends and connects with the wiring at the customer premises

ECAN

Echo cancellation - technology and processes for removing echo in voice telephony

Ed Esber

After Esber’s pioneering work in Personal Computer Software, Esber has been on the leading edge of the integration of computers and multimedia at Creative Labs, the integration of computers, toys and learning at Creative Insights, the integration of computers, communication and telephony at SoloPoint; the mobilization of email and internet access at Poqet Computer, portability of Personal Computers at Poqet Computer and tablet computing at Motion Computing.

Evolved EDGE

Evolved EDGE is a bolt-on extension to the GSM mobile telephony standard, which extends the previous EDGE upgrade to achieve theoretical speeds of up to 1 Mbit/s with relatively low cost and ease.

FCC Computer Inquiries

In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission Computer Inquiries were a trio of interrelated FCC Inquiries focused on problems posed by the convergence of regulated telephony with unregulated computing services.

Freshtel

In December 2005 Freshtel signed an agreement with Tesco to provide a white label Internet telephony solution for the UK market.

HT Mostar

HT also provides mobile telephony through its subsidiary ERONET.

Jeff Pulver

He became interested in Internet telephony in 1995, when he was as a systems administrator at Cantor Fitzgerald.

Louis Blom-Cooper

Blom-Cooper is well known for his regulatory work, particularly as Chair of the Press Council (UK) now the Press Complaints Commission and later as the founding chair of the premium rate telephony regulator, ICSTIS now PhonepayPlus.

Meucci

Antonio Meucci (1808–1889), Italian-American inventor of telephony

Mobile radio

They run on telephony-based infrastructure such as AMPS or GSM.

Onafhankelijke Post en Telecommunicatie Autoriteit

Headquartered in The Hague it was created to ensure competitiveness in the newly opened Dutch market for telephony and other telecom activities.

One Penn Plaza

Cisco Systems, a Fortune 500 IT networking and telephony company, occupies the 9th floor.

Open Settlement Protocol

A press release of September 2, 1998, announced that the industry leaders 3Com Corporation, Cisco, GRIC Communications, iPass, and TransNexus had "teamed up to promote inter-domain authentication, authorization and accounting standards for IP telephony through the Open Settlement Protocol (OSP)".

PhoneValet Message Center

PhoneValet Message Center (or, simply, PhoneValet) is a discontinued Mac-based multi-line computer-telephony package from Parliant Corporation.

Residual bit error rate

In digital transmission schemes, including cellular telephony systems such as GSM, a certain percentage of received data will be detected as containing errors, and will be discarded.

Retevisión

The brand Retevision as a telephony operator was abandoned in 2002 in favor of the new name Auna, a merger between Retevision and the cable operator AunaCable (both companies being part of Grupo Auna).

In the Basque region, Euskaltel retained its exclusivity versus Retevision therefore fixed telephony and the transmission of radio and television was performed by Euskaltel.

Standard Telephones and Cables

Within a few years, multi-channel transmission (1932), microwave transmission (1934), coaxial cabling (1936), the entire radio systems for the liners Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth (1936–39), the patenting of pulse code modulation (1938) all contributed to the hey-day of telephony’s development.

STK

SIM Application Toolkit, a part of GSM telephony standard responsible for applications stored on SIM

System Y

British Telecom decided to use the AXE10 digital switch in the mid-1980s to end its total reliance on GEC's System X.

Telco

Telecommunications company, provides telecommunications services such as telephony and data communications

Telecomunicações de Moçambique

TDM provides pre-paid and post-paid telephony services using POTS as well as CDMA and provide ISDN lines for businesses.

Telefon Hírmondó

It was the longest-running telephone newspaper, and has been described by Peter Lunenfeld as "the most sustained point-to-point telephonic distribution system".

Versit Consortium

The Versit Consortium was a multivendor initiative founded by Apple Computer, AT&T, IBM and Siemens in the early 1990s in order to create Personal Data Interchange (PDI) technology, open specifications for exchanging personal data over the Internet, wired and wireless connectivity and Computer Telephony Integration (CTI).

VoIP spam

Robocalls can be delivered automatically using telephony software, e.g. using Asterisk call files.

W. David Sincoskie

From 1996 to 2008, he was senior vice president of Telcordia Technologies's Networking Systems Laboratory where, among other achievements, he pioneered the creation of Internet telephony.

Wardenclyffe Tower

Wardenclyffe Tower (1901–1917) also known as the Tesla Tower, was an early wireless transmission tower designed by Nikola Tesla in Shoreham, New York and intended for commercial trans-Atlantic wireless telephony, broadcasting, and proof-of-concept demonstrations of wireless power transmission.

WiBro

February 10, 2006: Telecom Italia, the dominant telephony and internet service provider in Italy, together with Korean Samsung Electronics, has demonstrated to the public a WiBro network service on the occasion of the 2006 Winter Olympics, held in Turin, with downlink speed of 10 Mbit/s and uplink speed of some hundreds of kbit/s even in movement up to 120 km/h.

Zain Iraq

Iraqna launched operations in Iraq in December 2003, after the fall of Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, then with an exclusive license to provide mobile telephony services in Iraq’s central region.


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