telco
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of telco
C20: from tel ( ecommunications ) + co ( mpany )
Example Sentences
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Mynt didn’t respond to a request for comment, nor did its largest shareholder, Philippines telco Globe Telecom GLO -1.16%decrease; red down pointing triangle .
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026
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
Optus' former chief executive officer Kelly Bayer Rosmarin resigned in 2023 amid criticism over how the telco dealt with the outage.
From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025
More than 10 million Australians were hit by the 12-hour network blackout at the nation's second-largest telco for much of Wednesday, triggering fury and frustration among customers and raising wider concerns about the telecommunications infrastructure.
From Reuters • Nov. 19, 2023
And when AT&T crashed on Martin Luther King Day, 1990, this lent a credence to his claim that genuinely alarmed telco security and the Secret Service.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce
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