telecom
noun
tel·e·com
ˈte-li-ˌkäm 
plural telecoms
2
: the telecommunications industry
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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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From railroads to telecoms to energy, industries with concentrated wealth and technical expertise have usually succeeded in bending rules to their favor.
—Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, are amid the vanguard of innovators now imagining next-gen telecom networks in the atmosphere, the stratosphere, and orbit.
—Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Aug. 2025
Indranil Aditya | Nurphoto | Getty Images India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, on Friday announced plans to list the country’s largest telecom operator, Reliance Jio Infocomm, by the first half of 2026.
—Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
The telecom giant’s founder is a veteran of China’s military, and Bloomberg investigations conducted in 2019 and 2022 found that the corporation’s employees conduct research alongside Chinese military scientists, further evidencing Huawei’s ties to the Chinese military apparatus.
—Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 27 Aug. 2025
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Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, are amid the vanguard of innovators now imagining next-gen telecom networks in the atmosphere, the stratosphere, and orbit.
—Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Aug. 2025
Indranil Aditya | Nurphoto | Getty Images India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, on Friday announced plans to list the country’s largest telecom operator, Reliance Jio Infocomm, by the first half of 2026.
—Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
The telecom giant’s founder is a veteran of China’s military, and Bloomberg investigations conducted in 2019 and 2022 found that the corporation’s employees conduct research alongside Chinese military scientists, further evidencing Huawei’s ties to the Chinese military apparatus.
—Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 27 Aug. 2025
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“Telecom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telecom. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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