telco

British  

/ ˈtɛlˌkəʊ /

noun

1. a telecommunications company

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Etymology

Origin of telco

C20: from _tel ( _{ecommunications} ) + _co ( _mpany )

Example Sentences

With Aussie Broadband acquiring AGL’s telco customers, analysts Liam Robertson and Charles Strong wonder what incremental synergies the internet-service provider expects to achieve on the path to its 12.5% Ebitda margin target.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

Hong Leong raises Malaysia’s telco rating to overweight from neutral, pegging Telekom Malaysia as its top pick and highlighting Axiata as an event-driven opportunity supported by its asset monetization.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025

"Australians must be able to contact emergency services whenever they need help. This is the most fundamental responsibility every telco provider has to the public."

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2025

The head of Australia's second-largest telco Optus resigned on Monday, cutting short a more than three-year tenure marred by a massive network-wide outage and one of Australia's largest data breaches.

From Reuters • Nov. 20, 2023

Unlike the efforts of the Chicago Computer Fraud and Abuse Task Force, "Operation Sundevil" was not intended to combat "hacking" in the sense of computer intrusion or sophisticated raids on telco switching stations.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce