telco

noun

tel·co ˈtel-(ˌ)kō

: a telecommunications company

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The 54-square-foot above-ground equipment area has four radios, four cabinets and a telco cabinet to be painted brown to match the surroundings. — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026 The $1 billion stake in Finnish telco Nokia that the company added to its portfolio was first announced in October. — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2026 By pairing digital twins with AI agents, for example, telcos can run what-if scenarios on new services or simulate customer experiences pre-launch. — Dave McCann, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026 Hyperscalers need to get closer to the customer to serve latency-sensitive AI workloads, and telcos need to move up the stack to stay relevant as the network becomes software-defined. — Anthony Lobretto, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for telco

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Etymology

telephone company

First Known Use

1975, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of telco was in 1975

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telco

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