telecom
noun
tel·e·com
ˈte-li-ˌkäm 
plural telecoms
2
: the telecommunications industry
A lot of smart and experienced people lost money investing in telecom …—
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—often used before another nounThe Wall Street Journaltelecom 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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During the dot com bubble at the turn of the 21st Century, telecom equipment makers such as Nortel, Lucent, and Cisco lent money to startups and telecom companies to purchase their equipment.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
The team used standard optical parts running at telecom wavelengths.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
Vivek Badrinath, director general of the GSMA global telecoms industry body, also highlighted the opportunities offered by advances in AI, including in the development of local content and translations to drive new mobile connections.
—semafor.com, 24 Sep. 2025
And though attacks against telecom providers are not unusual, this kind of brute force method is almost unheard of, said Butler, a professor of computer and information science and engineering at the University of Florida.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
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Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
The team used standard optical parts running at telecom wavelengths.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
Vivek Badrinath, director general of the GSMA global telecoms industry body, also highlighted the opportunities offered by advances in AI, including in the development of local content and translations to drive new mobile connections.
—semafor.com, 24 Sep. 2025
And though attacks against telecom providers are not unusual, this kind of brute force method is almost unheard of, said Butler, a professor of computer and information science and engineering at the University of Florida.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
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“Telecom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telecom. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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