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

In 2025 Malo was acquired by Glickman Capital — led by technology and telecoms entrepreneur David Glickman. — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026

In telecoms, in payments, in logistics, the platforms that integrated across technologies consistently outperformed the specialists over longtime horizons. — Yariv Cohen, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2026

What do those two have in common with Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, which operate regulated, capital-intensive telecom networks? — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026

Throughout the United States, there are more than 4,500 public water systems, 3,000 electric utilities, and thousands of independent pipeline and telecom operators. — Anne Neuberger, Foreign Affairs, 15 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined at sense 1