Bluetooth Revealed

Chapter 13. The Telephony Profiles

Continuing our examination of the profiles, we now visit those that are based upon telephony functions. We include here the cordless telephony, intercom and headset profiles. As described in Chapter 10, the fax and dial-up networking profiles also make some use of telephony protocols, but we consider these part of the networking group that is covered in Chapter 15. All three telephony profiles discussed here primarily address voice telephony functions. They all target telephony devices (mostly mobile phones and headsets) and thus they exist largely for use by telephones.^[1] In fact, the intercom and cordless telephony profiles instantiate two different aspects of the three-in-one phone usage scenario introduced ...