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Telephony Definition

Communication, often two-way, of spoken information, by means of electrical signals carried by wires or radio waves.  The term was used to indicate transmission of the voice, as distinguished from telegraphy done in Morse code and usually called "continuous wave" or CW transmission, radio teletypewriter RTTY transmission also called FSK for "Frequency Shift Keying", the modulation scheme used by such machines, and later, facimile.


- The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe

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