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telecommunications

UK/ˌtɛlɪkəˌmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/US/ˌtɛləkəˌmjunɪˈkeɪʃən/
nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,578 of 15,258mostly written

Telecommunications is the sending of messages over long distances by wire or radio. A telecommunications company.

It began with the telegraph, which cut the time for a message from weeks to minutes. Telecommunications is nearly always plural even when it names one industry.

Richard Bartz, Munich aka Makro Freak · CC BY-SA 2.5

Definitions of telecommunications

  1. 1nountelecommunicationsThe sending of messages over long distances by wire or radio.C1

    “The whole telecommunications network went down for six hours.”

telecommunications is an industry.

Where it comes from

  1. French

    télécommunication

  2. English

    telecommunication

  3. English, today

    telecommunications

telecommunication comes from French télécommunication. Equivalent to tele- + communication.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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telecommunications in the wild

  • Telstra Group Limited is an Australian telecommunications company that builds and operates telecommunications networks and markets related products and services.

    Telstra

  • In a telecommunications network, a link is a communication channel that connects two or more devices for the purpose of data transmission.

    Telecommunications link

  • The link may be a dedicated physical link or a virtual circuit that uses one or more physical links or shares a physical link with other telecommunications links.

    Telecommunications link

  • A telecommunications company is an electronic communications service provider, more precisely a telecommunications service provider (TSP), that provides telecommunications services such as telephony and data communications access.

    Telecommunications company

  • With the advent of mobile telephony, telecommunications companies now include wireless carriers, or mobile network operators and even satellite providers (Iridium).

    Telecommunications company

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.