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A conference call (sometimes called an audio teleconference or ATC) is a telephone call in which someone talks to several people at the same time. The conference call may be designed to allow the called party to participate during the call or set up so that the called party merely listens into the call and cannot speak.
Traffic pumping, also known as access stimulation, is a controversial practice by which some local exchange telephone carriers in rural areas of the United States inflate the volume of incoming calls to their networks, and profit from the greatly increased intercarrier compensation fees to which they are entitled by the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
According to 9/11 Commission staff statement No. 17 there were several communications failures at the federal government level during and after the 9/11 attacks. Perhaps the most serious occurred in an "Air Threat Conference Call" initiated by the National Military Command Center (NMCC) after two planes had crashed into the World Trade Center, but shortly before The Pentagon was hit.
Yoel Roth, former head of trust and safety at Twitter, speaks onstage during Vox Media's 2023 Code Conference at The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel on Sept. 27, 2023, in Dana Point, Calif. (Jerod ...
A third number call or third party call is an operator assisted telephone call that can be billed to the party other than the calling and called party. The operator calls the third number for the party to accept the charges before the call can proceed. Time and charges was a service that could be requested of an operator before a call began ...
Videotelephony (also known as videoconferencing or video call) is the use of audio and video for simultaneous two-way communication. [1] There are many terms to refer to videotelephony. Videophones are standalone devices for video calling (compare Telephone ). In the present day, devices like smartphones and computers are capable of video ...
Telephone exchange. A telephone operator manually connecting calls with cord pairs at a telephone switchboard. A modern central office, equipped with voice communication and broadband data capabilities. A telephone exchange, also known as a telephone switch or central office, is a crucial component in the public switched telephone network (PSTN ...
Code mobility. In distributed computing, code mobility is the ability for running programs, code or objects to be migrated (or moved) from one machine or application to another. [1] This is the process of moving mobile code across the nodes of a network as opposed to distributed computation where the data is moved.