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...

Telephone call recording laws are legislation enacted in many jurisdictions, such as countries, states, provinces, that regulate the practice of telephone...

Telephone phobia (telephonophobia, telephobia, phone phobia) is reluctance or fear of making or taking phone calls, literally, "fear of telephones". It...

"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...

of the telephone chronicles the development of the electrical telephone, and includes a brief overview of its predecessors. The first telephone patent...

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...

keypad or dial, affixed to the telephone, to enter a telephone number, which is the address of the call recipient's telephone in the telecommunication system...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Call forwarding, or call diversion, is a telephony feature of all telephone switching systems which redirects a telephone call to another destination,...

originating telephone set, which transmits the sequence of digits in the process of signaling to a telephone exchange. The exchange completes the call either...

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...

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...

The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the aggregate of the world's telephone networks that are operated by national, regional, or local telephony...

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...

switched telephone network (PSTN), also known as plain old telephone service (POTS). The steps and principles involved in originating VoIP telephone calls are...

telephone calls are a popular way of making telephone calls which allow the caller to control spending without making a commitment with the telephone...

facilitates the interconnection of telephone subscriber lines or digital system virtual circuits, enabling telephone calls between subscribers. The terminology...

International telephone calls are those made between different countries. These telephone calls are processed by international gateway exchanges (switches)...

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...

for receiving or transmitting a large volume of enquiries by telephone. An inbound call centre is operated by a company to administer incoming product...

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...

telephone systems from multiple telephone stations, and that such a system often provides additional features for call handling. Business telephone systems...

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...

international telephone call, dialed directly by a telephone subscriber, rather than by a telephone operator. Subscriber dialing of international calls typically...

invents the telephone switchboard exchange (later working with Edison). 9 October 1876: Bell makes the first two-way long-distance telephone call between...

actual electrical tap on an analog telephone or telegraph line. Legal wiretapping by a government agency is also called lawful interception. Passive wiretapping...

silent call is a telephone call in which the calling party does not speak when the call is answered. Most such calls are generated by a cold call telemarketing...