telecom

noun

tel·e·com ˈte-li-ˌkäm

plural telecoms

: telecommunication

: the telecommunications industry

A lot of smart and experienced people lost money investing in telecom …—The Wall Street Journal

—often used before another noun

telecom companies/services

the telecom industry

But questions remain about how the telecom giant will shift its strategy and whether it will be able to do it fast enough to catch up with tech giants …—Melissa Repko

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Entrepreneurs from banking, AI delivery and telecoms will talk about future opportunities. — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026 ByteDance’s enterprise cloud arm, BytePlus, is partnering with Saudi telecom operator Mobily to build its first physical cloud infrastructure in the Middle East, in Riyadh. — Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2026 As a reminder, their work is about fiber-optic sensing, not telecom data transmission, where conventional round fiber remains the standard. — Pawel Maniewski, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2026 The robocall scorecard won’t be the first FCC initiative designed to give consumers useful data about telecom providers. — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for telecom

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First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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