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

Abhishek Singh, Technology and Customer Business Executive at Amdocs, with 20+ years in IT, telecom and network leadership. —Abhishek Singh, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025

British telecom company Vodafone is testing the limits of technology by using an AI influencer in its advertisements. —Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 8 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

At stake is one of the largest pots of underused airwaves, which are owned by the public but licensed to telecom companies. —Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined at sense 1