Telephony is the electronic point-to-point communication of audio signals. At the new millennium, the world has 750 million telephone lines, half of which are in the United States. Half the people in the world have never talked on a telephone! Every...

In telecommunication, telephony (pronounced /təˈlɛfəni/) encompasses the general use of equipment to provide voice communication over distances, specifically by connecting telephones to each other. Telephones originally were connected directly...

The word "telephony" has traditionally meant voice communications carried out by means of highly specialized, not particularly flexible end user devices. For more than a century, that limited definition has been a reasonably accurate way to describe how people talked to each other...

Telephone companies will do well to adopt the seven principles of the future of telephony used by U S West. Among these are that local telephony is a profitable business, that local telephony will experience continued growth, that companies should strive to be the...

AT&T plans by year-end to package its fledgling Internet TV service with an Internet phone service.AT&T has more than 100,000 customers for U-verse, the TV service it launched in late 2006. But so far, AT&T has sold U-verse TV along with standard, circuit-switched phone service...

When the Internet phone company Skype went offline for nearly two days last week, Tim Legrand was frustrated and inconvenienced. But he has no plans to switch back to a traditional telephone line.The Birmingham, England, graduate student, who ditched his old phone service a year...