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

So why has the O-RAN standard—which is open and available to be applied well beyond 5G telecom—never been used for vehicle communications? — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2026

Wireless telecom won by proving the seemingly impossible could happen another way. — Anna Demeo, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Whenever there is a technological breakthrough like AI, or the internet and telecom boom of the 1990s, there is massive speculation. — Jill Schlesinger, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2026

As calls are routed further into remote regions with limited telecom infrastructure, costs tend to increase. — Wyles Daniel, jsonline.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined at sense 1