List of telephony terminology
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The following are terms and acronyms which relate to telephony networks
Acronyms
Other terms
- call originator
- call waiting
- called party
- caller
- calling party
- COCOT
- emergency telephone number
- end instrument
- Engset Calculation
- Erlang unit
- fax
- Handoff
- Handover
- help desk
- Hunt Group
- infrastructure
- interactive voice response (IVR)
- line
- local loop
- long-distance operator
- operator assistance
- person-to-person
- red telephone box
- Red Box
- ringer equivalency number (REN)
- Ringing signal
- rural radio service
- Smartphone
- station-to-station
- telemarketing
- telephone
- telephone booth
- telephone call
- telephone card
- telephone directory
- telephone exchange
- telephone tapping
- Teletraffic Engineering
- trap and trace
- TWX
- vertical service code
- voicemail
- Western Union
- Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS)
- WATS line
- wireless network
- Wi-Fi
- Zenith number
See also
- telephony category