telephone
Let an agent explain the telephone and how it works across generations, describe telephone networks and services, support choosing and using telephones, and describe history and social impact.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain the telephone and how it works across generations, describe telephone networks and services, support choosing and using telephones, and describe history and social impact.
A telecommunications device that converts speech into electrical or digital signals for transmission over wires, radio or networks and reproduces speech at the receiving end, from the wired telephones of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to cordless phones, mobile phones and smartphones and voice over internet services; the telephone transformed communication and remains a basic home and business appliance and, in mobile form, a personal computing device.
What it is for: Device for voice communication at a distance.
It can be explain how telephones work; describe networks and services; support choice and use; describe history.
Distinguishing features
Two-way voice
Network-connected
Generations of technology
Ubiquitous
What it looks like
Handsets with microphone and speaker, wired or mobile.
How it is recognised
Transmits and reproduces speech at a distance
Wired, cordless, mobile
A radio broadcasts one way; a telegraph sends codes
Related models
is a kind of - category
is a kind of - category
is related to - wireless infrastructure
is related to - input devices on smartphones
In practice
Families and kinds
wired landline telephones
cordless telephones
mobile phones and smartphones
voice over internet telephony
payphones and special telephones
Standards and regulation
Telecommunications standards and numbering
Emergency call obligations
Consumer and privacy regulation
Failure modes and hazards
Fraud and scam calls
Network outages affecting emergency calls
Privacy and surveillance concerns
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.telephone
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand How telephones work.
Technology.
Principle
Principle.
Principle
Principle.
- How do telephones convert and transmit speech, from analogue wired systems to digital and mobile networks? definition
- Which generation of telephone is meant? boundary
Networks
Networks and services.
Networks
Networks.
- How do telephone networks, numbering and interconnection work, including mobile and internet telephony? provenance
- Which entry fits telecommunications networks? action
Use Choosing and using.
Practice.
Choose
Choosing a telephone.
Choose
Choosing.
- Which type of telephone or service suits this need, considering cost, coverage and accessibility? action
- Which entry fits a specific device category? action
Safety
Safety and fraud.
Safety
Safety.
- How can users protect themselves from scam calls and fraud, according to regulators? provenance
- Is an emergency call needed now? boundary
Society Regulation and society.
Context.
Regulation
Regulation.
Regulation
Regulation.
- How are telephone services regulated for access, emergency calls and privacy? provenance
- Which entry fits telecommunications regulation? action
Impact
Social impact.
Impact
Impact.
- How has the telephone changed society, work and personal life, according to historians and researchers? provenance
- Which findings are contested? boundary
Learn History and teaching.
Education.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did the telephone develop from Bell and contemporaries to the smartphone? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can telephone technology be taught? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Should mobile phones be a separate entry?
- How should telecom regulators be linked?
- How should history resources be linked?