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

In what probably should’ve been a tell, when AT&T acquired it in 2018, the telecom swallowed Time Warner whole and there was no trace of the Warner name. — Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2026

The pitch is aimed at broadcasters, streaming platforms and telecom operators whose existing monitoring stacks generate fragmented alerts that engineers must manually correlate and react to. — Callum McLennan, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026

Last month, the UAE’s telecom regulator granted Elon Musk’s Starlink a 10-year license, noting that this will support critical sectors including maritime and aviation transport, energy, logistics, and emergency response. — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026

According to Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, the ground stop was the result of a telecom outage after a fiber line was accidentally cut into in New Jersey. — Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined at sense 1