telecom

noun

tel·​e·​com ˈte-li-ˌkäm How to pronounce telecom (audio)
plural telecoms
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: the telecommunications industry
A lot of smart and experienced people lost money investing in telecomThe 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

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The list includes stronger capital expenditure recovery momentum than others within telecom and interest in data center connectivity investing. Alex Harring, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2025 July 28: SpaceX Falcon Heavy from KSC’s Launch Complex 39-A that launched a telecom satellite for Hughes Network Systems called the Jupiter 3 EchoStar XXIV at 11:04 p.m. Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2025 By democratizing access to their network’s extensive capabilities, telecom service providers can foster new business models and partnerships built on aggregation and simplification. Raghav Sahgal, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025 By entering through these backdoors in U.S. telecom systems, Chinese intelligence could have seen which of its operations are being monitored by the FBI. Adam Segal, Foreign Affairs, 21 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for telecom 

Word History

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of telecom was in 1953

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“Telecom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telecom. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.

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