About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Hotline, NS/EP telecommunications, Direct distance dialing, Teletraining, Essential service, Service termination point, FTS2000, Videophone, Google Voice, Telemedicine, Telerehabilitation, Connected Health, List of video telecommunication services and product brands, Triple play, Telehealth, Individual Television Experience, Teledermatology, Telephone triage, Directory assistance, Ringback Tone Advertising, PrivatePhone, Teleradiology, WAP billing, Convergent charging, International call, Mobile donating, Ontario Telemedicine Network, Wireless Medical Telemetry Service, MCI Mail, Telepsychiatry, Knowledge Generation Bureau, Over-the-air programming, Remote therapy, Televisionary, 800-The-Info, Real time policy, Telecare, Local Multipoint Distribution Service, Dynamic Discount, Wirephoto, TXTMob, 10-10-321, Service fulfillment, Point-to-point, Tera-play, Miniweb Interactive, Tele-information services, Teleseminars, Unified voicemail, Belgian Health Telematics Commission, Value-added service, Service-oriented provisioning, Concurrent Computer Corporation, Kol Mevaser, Point-to-multipoint communication, Hoot-n-holler, The Phone Company. Excerpt: A videophone is a telephone with a video screen, and is capable of full duplex (bi-directional) video and audio transmissions for communication between people in real-time. It was the first form of videotelephony, later to be followed by videoconferencing, webcams, and finally telepresence. At the dawn of the technology, videotelephony also included image phones which would exchange still images between units every few seconds over conventional POTS-type telephone lines, essentially the same as slow scan TV systems. Currently videophones are particularly useful to the deaf and speech-impaired who can use them with sign language, and also with video relay services to communicate...
