Definition of telecom
2 : the telecommunications industry
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Vladislav Horohorin, an experienced hacker, recalls that when Russia and Georgia briefly went to war in 2008, Russians without any government connection hacked into the Georgian telecom infrastructure.
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But the FCC’s policies also shifted towards neutrality in those years in response to the agency’s own battles with Verizon and other large telecom companies.
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The telecom giant ultimately cut its purchase price from $4.8 billion to $4.48 billion and said that the deal would close during the second quarter of this year, which ends on June 30.
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But though its tentacles reach around the world, Cable & Wireless is not generally thought to be in the same league as today’s modern global telecom players.
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1948
First Known Use of telecom
1948
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: a telecommunications company
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: the telecommunications industry
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