Telephone
:This article is about telephone technology. For the game of telephone, see Telephone (game). For the band, see Téléphone.
See also
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Telephone equipment manufacturers
Several manufacturers build telephones of all kinds. Some of these are:
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- Alcatel
- Conair (makers of Southwestern Bell Freedom Phone)
- Ericsson
- Huawei
- Kyocera
- Lucent
- Marconi
- Mitel
- Motorola
- Nokia
- Nortel
- palmOne / Handspring
- Samsung
- Siemens AG
- Sony Ericsson
- Unical Enterprises (makers of Northwestern Bell Phones)
- US Electronics (makers of BellSouth Products)
Telephone technology
- Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
- AIOD leads
- ANAC
- ANI
- Assistive technology
- Automatic redial
- Call capture
- Call forwarding
- Call waiting
- Caller ID
- Computer telephony integration (CTI)
- Customer premises equipment (CPE)
- Dial tone
- Digital subscriber line (DSL)
- Direct dial
- Direct distance dialing
- Dual tone multi frequency (DTMF)
- Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
- Last Call Return (*69)
- Telephone feature code (* code)
- Party line
- Plain old telephone service (POTS)
- Ringing signal
- Videotex
- Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP)
Telephone system, organization, and structure
- Area code
- Office code
- Basic exchange telecommunications radio service
- Bell System
- Call center
- Competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC)
- Foreign exchange service
- Incumbent local exchange company (ILEC)
- Key system
- Local exchange company (LEC)
- Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)
- Regional Bell operating company (RBOC)
- Post office
- Private line
- Private branch exchange (PBX)
- Station set
Telephone hacking and exploitation
- Blue box
- Bomb threat
- Crank (or prank) call
- Demon dialing
- (Phone) phreaking
- Speed dialer
- Telephone fraud
- War dialing
US-specific terminology
- Competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC)
- Federal Standard 1037C
- Interexchange carrier (IXC)
- List of telephony terms
- Local access and transport area (LATA)
- Local exchange carrier (LEC)
- Modification of Final Judgment
- Federal Regulations - Part 68
- Regional Bell operating company (RBOC)
- US telephony
Telephone terminology
- Call originator
- Call waiting
- Called party
- Caller
- Calling party
- Circuit busy
- COCOT
- Deaf
- Emergency telephone number
- End instrument
- Fax
- Help desk
- Hook
- Hook Flash
- Hunt Group
- Infrastructure
- Interactive voice response (IVR)
- Line
- Local loop
- Long-distance operator
- Operator assistance
- Person-to-person
- Red telephone, Red telephone box,
- Ringer equivalency number (REN)
- Ringing signal
- Rural radio service
- Smartphone
- Station-to-station
- Telemarketing
- Telephone booth
- Telephone call
- Telephone card
- Telephone directory
- Telephone exchange
- Telephone tapping
- Telephone User Interface (TUI)
- Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI)
- Trap and trace
- TWX
- Vertical service code
- Voicemail
- Western Union
- Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS)
- WATS line
- Wireless network
- Wi-Fi
- Zenith number
Telephone Standards
Wired Standards
Wireless Standards
There are many standards for common carrier wireless telephony, often with incompatible standards used in the same nation:
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- First generation - Analog
- marine and mobile radio telephony
- AMPS
- CDPD
- NMT
- Satellite systems- digital
- Inmarsat
- Iridium (satellite)
- Second generation (2G) - Digital
- CDMA IS-95A
- GSM, (different frequencies for different continents: see GSM article)
- iDEN
- TDMA IS-136
- 2.5G
- CDMA IS-95B
- GPRS
- EDGE
- PDC-P
- Third generation (3G)
- CDMA 2000
- UMTS, also called W-CDMA
- TD-SCDMA
~ Table of Content ~
| ► | Introduction |
| ► | History |
| ► | Wireless phone systems |
| ► | Digital Telephony |
| ► | Telephone equipment research labs |
| ► | Telephone operating companies |
| ► | See also |
| ► | References |
| ► | Patents |
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