The telephone earpiece on a phone is called a headset.
from the word parts..Tele meaning distant and vision
Tele is Greek for 'far' which is why we have tele-phone and tele-vision. Vision because we watch it. with our VISION. Really the question should have been the other way around, as "Why is a television called a TV?" Originally, the device was called a television [as explained in the previous answer], and later someone shortened that to TV, which is an acronym using the first letter of the words Tele and Vision.j3h.
The prefix meaning complete or through is "tele-".
tele = "television"
The English prefix 'tele' is from the Greek word 'tele' meaning 'far.'
Alofa tele mo oe.
A tele-conference or video-conference.
tele means distance
Tele Columbus was created in 1985.
Tele Kon was created in 199#.
Tele Time was created in 1993.
Tele Tora was created in 199#.