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Recent Examples of telecom from the Web
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Johnson Rice will be the second woman on Tesla's board after Robyn Denholm, COO of Australian telecom Telstra, who is also the board's first African-American member.
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Banks and mining shares are leading the rally, while health care and telecoms are trailing as their dividend payouts become less attractive.
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Sewage treatment, water desalination, hospitals and the telecoms system are foundering.
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A former telecom executive, Gabbay nonetheless stresses his humble beginnings and was accompanied to Tuesday's vote by his mother.
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A class-action lawsuit filed in Idaho accuses telecom giant CenturyLink of defrauding its customers of millions, possibly billions, of dollars.
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The vote comes as tensions have been rising between the telecom industry and its leading union, the Communications Workers of America.
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Or how Finns, led by Jorma Ollila, CEO of the telecom giant Nokia, ignited the telecommunications revolution of the 1990s – and helped power the country out of that decade’s economic depression.
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The smartphone was expected to change telecom providers’ fortunes for the better.
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First Known Use of telecom
1948
TELECOM Defined for English Language Learners
telecom
playDefinition of telecom for English Language Learners
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: a telecommunications company
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: the telecommunications industry
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