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

The telecom giant unloaded the media properties less than four years later. — David Folkenflik, NPR, 13 July 2026

Nokia’s revenues, which peaked in 2007, fell sharply through the mid-2010s before the company refocused on a decades-old business line—telecom infrastructure—that many had forgotten Nokia was even in. — IEEE Spectrum, 13 July 2026

The bank's research team pointed to semiconductor equipment and telecom networks as examples of subdivision within the space. — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 8 July 2026

Here's how telecom got there before everyone else, and who's busy borrowing the idea now. — Mushfig Aliyev, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined at sense 1