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  2. Push-button telephone - Wikipedia

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    A push-button telephone is a telephone that has buttons or keys for dialing a telephone number, in contrast to a rotary dial used in earlier telephones.. Western Electric experimented as early as 1941 with methods of using mechanically activated reeds to produce two tones for each of the ten digits and by the late 1940s such technology was field-tested in a No. 5 Crossbar switching system in ...

  3. Cordless telephone - Wikipedia

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    Cordless phones became widely used in home and workplaces during the early 1980s. According to The New York Times, the number of cordless phones sold in the United States grew from 50,000 in 1980 to 1 million in 1982. They quickly became popular because of their convenience and portability, despite fears that their reliance on radio signals ...

  4. CT2 - Wikipedia

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    Up to 100 metre (300 ft) range Unlike DECT, CT2 was a voice-only system, though like any minimally-compressed voice system, users could deploy analog modems to transfer data; in the early 1990s, Apple Computer sold a CT2 modem called the PowerBop to make use of France's Bi-Bop CT2 network.

  5. The 7 Best Cordless Phones That Combine Simplicity and ... - AOL

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    KX-TDG863W Cordless Phone. With two-way recording, bilingual talking caller ID, hearing aid compatibility, automated call blocking, and intercom support, this model delivers an impressive array of ...

  6. Phoneword - Wikipedia

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    The differences between the prefixes are the length of the number (six or ten digits), the license cost to use them each year (approximately A$1 for 1800 and 1300, A$10,000 for 13 numbers) and the call cost model. 1300 numbers [8] and 13 numbers share call costs between the caller and call recipient, whereas the 1800 model offers a national ...

  7. List of telephony terminology - Wikipedia

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    Call originator - (or calling party, caller or A-party) a person or device that initiates a telephone call by dialling a telephone number. Call waiting - a system that notifies a caller of another incoming telephone call by sounding a sound in the earpiece. Called party - (or callee or B-party) Caller; Calling party; Conference call (multi ...

  8. Telephone keypad - Wikipedia

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    In early cell phones, or feature phones, the letters on the keys are used for text entry tasks such as text messaging, entering names in the phone book, and browsing the web. To compensate for the smaller number of keys, phones used multi-tap and later predictive text processing to speed up the process.

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