Designed

As well as telephones being a communication device, they can also be used as a fashion statement. There are so many different, unique phones that can very well be used for decoration. Here is a site to go to to see many different phones with very unique designs.

Payphones of the World

Through researching telephony, I found an interesting site that shows the different variety of payphones in the world. This site offers pictures and descriptions of the different phones used in each country of the world. I never knew prior to researching that each country has different types of payphones. The pictures on the left and right just show an example of how different payphones are from the United States and Italy.

To look at more pictures and learn more check this site out:

http://www.2600.com/phones/

Photo Phone

The photo phone is a great new landline phone.
Click here to read more about it.

Telephony Online

To find some of the latest news dealing with telephony, a helpful site is: http://telephonyonline.com/news/

The site features news about ethernet, independent, IPTV, IMS, WMAX, VoIP, FTTx, Access, Broadband, Wireless, and software. It's a helpful site to connect with everything that is currently going on in the industry.

History

Here is a cool site about the history of the telephone

Changes Over the Years

With the advancements of telephony, the industry is having to make quite a few changes. Among these changes, it includes long distance companies are changing and do not resemble what they once were since their landline customer-base is shrinking, therefore they're beginning to offer what they call "bundled" packages in which customers can receive elaborate voicemail centers, call forwarding, automatic dialing, call blocking, to name a few.

With so many people using cellular devices and landline devices, telephone companies are beginning to run out of telephone numbers and instead of using what they usually do by changing the area code, they may have to incorporate always having to dial 10 digit numbers.

Lastly, the use of 900 numbers are no longer available and instead are now considered toll-free 1-800 numbers that allow you connect with psychics, jokes, dating opportunites, the list goes on, by making credit card payments instead of the old way of charging customers to their bills and having to deal with "charge backs" when customers refused to pay their charges.

cell phone language...

SInce texting has become more and more popular the past few years, more people are using a new "language" to talk....