Category
page 1Telephone services
telephone booth
small structure furnished with a payphone
telephone card
small card, usually resembling a credit card, used to pay for telephone services
interactive voice response
voice or tone user interface for telephony
plain old telephone service
traditional analog voice land line telephone service
virtual circuit
means of transporting data over a packet-switched network so as to emulate a dedicated physical link between nodes
televoting
Televoting (also telephone voting, phone voting, and call-in voting) is a method of decision making and opinion polling conducted by telephone. Televoting can also extend to voting by SMS text message via a mobile cell phone.
public-safety answering point
call center operated by the local government for emergency phone calls
Long-distance calling
telephone call charged at a higher rate
telephone token
token coins once widely used for making telephone calls from public telephones in place of ordinary coins
telecommunications relay service
operator service that allows people who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, or have a speech disorder to place calls to standard telephone users via a keyboard or assistive device