telecom

noun

tel·​e·​com ˈte-li-ˌkäm 

plural telecoms

1

: telecommunication

2

: 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

Examples of telecom in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Zhou spent almost two decades in government before launching her first company, a telecoms services firm, in 2000. —Maggie McGrath, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026

In 1998, the world’s largest telecom, AT&T, cut a series of deals with a popular startup called Excite. —Omid Malekan, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026

But those are not the oil-to-telecom conglomerate's biggest worries. —Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2026

In late December, Finnish police detained a cargo vessel, the Fitburg, which was sailing from St Petersburg to Haifa in Israel, and was accused of damaging an undersea telecoms cable in the Baltic by dragging its anchor over it. —The Week Uk, TheWeek, 18 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined at sense 1