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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

incoming telephone call. Telephone calls are initiated most commonly with a keypad or dial, affixed to the telephone, to enter a telephone number, which...

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...

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...

Often the system is set up so that once a call is made to an emergency telephone number, it must be answered. Should the caller abandon the call, the line...

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...

a telephone exchange. The exchange completes the call either to another locally connected subscriber or via the PSTN to the called party. Telephone numbers...

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

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 conference...

developed in the 1970s that is used to set up and tear down telephone calls on most parts of the global public switched telephone network (PSTN). The protocol...

tapping or telephone tapping, is the monitoring of telephone and Internet-based conversations by a third party, often by covert means. The wire tap received...

presidential election, and 2008 Nord-Kivu campaign. In reaction to the telephone calls, Baillie said that her relationship with Brand had been brief and...

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...

originating VoIP telephone calls are similar to traditional digital telephony and involve signaling, channel setup, digitization of the analog voice signals...

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

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

A ringtone is the sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming telephone call. Originally referring to the sound of electromechanical striking of...

A telephone switchboard is a device used to connect circuits of telephones to establish telephone calls between users or other switchboards. The switchboard...

endpoints. Telephone numbers are the addresses of participants in a telephone network, reachable by a system of destination code routing. Telephone numbering...

The invention of the telephone was the culmination of work done by more than one individual, and led to an array of lawsuits relating to the patent claims...

timeline of the telephone covers landline, radio, and cellular telephony technologies and provides many important dates in the history of the telephone. 1667:...