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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Besides, while the telecoms bubble of 2000 left in its wake fiber optic cable and 3G infrastructure that proved invaluable over the following decade, data centers—essentially warehouses piled high with GPUs—don’t have the same longevity.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 24 Feb. 2026
Reliance Industries and its telecom arm, Jio, pledged $110 billion over seven years to build AI and data infrastructure, with chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani citing compute cost as the central bottleneck to AI adoption.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2026
In Southeast Asia, Rock Networks has come aboard as the exclusive telco distribution partner for FlareFlow, COL’s flagship app, handling carrier integrations and subscription rollouts across telecom ecosystems in the region.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Feb. 2026
His father was a telecoms executive, his mother a dancer.
—The Week Uk, TheWeek, 20 Feb. 2026
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Charlie Campbell, Time, 24 Feb. 2026
Reliance Industries and its telecom arm, Jio, pledged $110 billion over seven years to build AI and data infrastructure, with chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani citing compute cost as the central bottleneck to AI adoption.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2026
In Southeast Asia, Rock Networks has come aboard as the exclusive telco distribution partner for FlareFlow, COL’s flagship app, handling carrier integrations and subscription rollouts across telecom ecosystems in the region.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Feb. 2026
His father was a telecoms executive, his mother a dancer.
—The Week Uk, TheWeek, 20 Feb. 2026
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“Telecom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telecom. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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