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

Fire, cyberattack, power failure, an inaccessible building, telecom disruption, supplier failure, loss of key personnel or a prolonged IT outage can each interrupt an SME. — Bojan Ilic, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026

Bernstein reiterates SpaceX as outperform SpaceX continues to move toward building its own telecom network, Bernstein says. — Michael Bloom, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2026

New cable ambitions The Pan-Arctic Cable took shape when European companies and research organizations joined forces with a Greenland telecom operator to sign an agreement on developing the project in 2025, according to Submarine Cable Networks. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 28 Oct. 2026

Last year, attacks on undersea cables in Eastern Europe’s Baltic Sea, allegedly linked to Russia, disrupted connectivity in Sweden and Latvia, prompting calls from telecom firms for governments to step in. — Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined at sense 1