telecom
noun
tel·e·com
ˈte-li-ˌkäm 
plural telecoms
2
: the telecommunications industry
A lot of smart and experienced people lost money investing in telecom …—
The Wall Street Journal
—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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Engineers at the University of California, San Diego may have developed a different way to connect satellites to Earth, replacing large mechanical dishes with networks of smaller, flat antennas distributed across rooftops, telecom towers, and other buildings.
—New Atlas, 30 May 2026
Four people have been arrested and charged in connection with a utility wire theft that caused $50,000 in damage and knocked out telecom services for 10,000 customers in Fremont, police said.
—Jason Green, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
Yet those cables currently carry less than 1 percent of global international bandwidth, according to TeleGeography, a telecom research firm, and the network as a whole is engineered to route around routine failures.
—Ramin Skibba, Scientific American, 27 May 2026
Traditional telecom providers do offer visibility into usage.
—Dmitri Verbovski, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
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New Atlas, 30 May 2026
Four people have been arrested and charged in connection with a utility wire theft that caused $50,000 in damage and knocked out telecom services for 10,000 customers in Fremont, police said.
—Jason Green, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
Yet those cables currently carry less than 1 percent of global international bandwidth, according to TeleGeography, a telecom research firm, and the network as a whole is engineered to route around routine failures.
—Ramin Skibba, Scientific American, 27 May 2026
Traditional telecom providers do offer visibility into usage.
—Dmitri Verbovski, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for telecom
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“Telecom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telecom. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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