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

• RJ-11
• BS_6312

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