phone vs telephony

phone and telephony both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
phone	Yes	No	Yes	No
telephony	Yes	No	No	No

phone (noun)	telephony (noun)
electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds	transmitting speech at a distance
electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear
(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

phone (verb)	telephony (verb)
get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone