telephone call or telephone conversation (or telcon), also known as a phone call or voice call (or simply a call), is a connection over a telephone network...
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Telephone call recording laws are legislation enacted in many jurisdictions, such as countries, states, provinces, that regulate the practice of telephone...
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Telephone phobia (telephonophobia, telephobia, phone phobia) is reluctance or fear of making or taking phone calls, literally, "fear of telephones". It...
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of the telephone chronicles the development of the electrical telephone, and includes a brief overview of its predecessors. The first telephone patent...
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A telephone booth, telephone kiosk, telephone call box, telephone box or public call box is a tiny structure furnished with a payphone and designed for...
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keypad or dial, affixed to the telephone, to enter a telephone number, which is the address of the call recipient's telephone in the telecommunications system...
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"The Telephone Call" (German: "Der Telefon-Anruf") is a song by the German electronic band Kraftwerk. It was released in 1987 as the second and final single...
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A call detail record (CDR) is a data record produced by a telephone exchange or other telecommunications equipment that documents the details of a telephone...
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A prank call (also known as a crank call or a hoax call or a goof call) is a telephone call intended by the caller as a practical joke played on the person...
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Call forwarding, or call diversion, is a telephony feature of all telephone switching systems which redirects a telephone call to another destination,...
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Long-distance calling (redirect from Long distance telephone call)
telecommunications, a long-distance call (U.S.) or trunk call (also known as a toll call in the U.K. [citation needed]) is a telephone call made to a location outside...
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ordinary telephone traffic, they still may be able to access circuits that other traffic cannot. Often the system is set up so that once a call is made...
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originating telephone set, which transmits the sequence of digits in the process of signaling to a telephone exchange. The exchange completes the call either...
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An obscene phone call is an unsolicited telephone call where a person uses profane and/or sexual language to interact with someone who may be known to...
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A Telephone Call (French: Un coup de téléphone) is a 1932 French comedy film directed by Georges Lacombe and starring Jean Weber, Colette Darfeuil and...
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The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the aggregate of the world's telephone networks that are operated by national, regional, or local telephony...
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Voice over IP (redirect from Internet telephone)
switched telephone network (PSTN), also known as plain old telephone service (POTS). The steps and principles involved in originating VoIP telephone calls are...
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A conference call (sometimes called an audio teleconference or ATC) is a telephone call in which someone talks to several people at the same time. The...
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telephone calls are a popular way of making telephone calls which allow the caller to control spending without making a commitment with the telephone...
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collect call in Canada and the United States, known as a reverse charge call in other parts of the English-speaking world, is a telephone call in which...
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facilitates the interconnection of telephone subscriber lines or digital system virtual circuits, enabling telephone calls between subscribers. The terminology...
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A telephone call, which for marketing purposes is claimed to be the first transcontinental telephone call, occurred on January 25, 1915, a day timed to...
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for receiving or transmitting a large volume of enquiries by telephone. An inbound call centre is operated by a company to administer incoming product...
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telephone systems from multiple telephone stations, and that such a system often provides additional features for call handling. Business telephone systems...
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Wiretapping (redirect from Telephone tap)
actual electrical tap on an analog telephone or telegraph line. Legal wiretapping by a government agency is also called lawful interception. Passive wiretapping...
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International telephone calls are those made between different countries. These telephone calls are processed by international gateway exchanges (switches)...
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that n people subscribe to a telephone service that can connect any two of them by a call, but cannot make a single call connecting more than two people...
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invents the telephone switchboard exchange (later working with Edison). 9 October 1876: Bell makes the first two-way long-distance telephone call between...
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International direct dialing (redirect from International call prefix)
international telephone call, dialed directly by a telephone subscriber, rather than by a telephone operator. Subscriber dialing of international calls typically...
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presidential election, and 2008 Nord-Kivu campaign. In reaction to the telephone calls, Baillie said that her relationship with Brand had been brief and she...
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