quiescent-carrier telephony

quiescent-carrier telephony

[kwē′es·ənt ¦kar·ē·ər tə′lef·ə·nē]

(communications)

A radiotelephony system in which the carrier is suppressed whenever there are no voice signals to be transmitted.

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