0 short for telecommunications :
1 a telecommunications company (= one that provides telephone and related services):
2 relating to the telecommunications industry:
3 used in the names of some national telecommunications companies:
France Telecom
4 the telecommunications industry:
Such relaxation of state monopoly control of telecommunications as occurred was mainly in" communications" areas lying between telecoms and computers.
European nations' telecoms continued to depend on a consensual grouping of a few powerful interests.
Given the divergent interests of computer equipment producers and telecoms equipment producers concerning trade liberalization, the equipment producers could not organise strong support for reform.
They can choose to insist on state ownership, as is common for public utilities, post and telecoms.
The rest of the world's telecoms deregulatory efforts were half-hearted at most.
The telecoms and defence of officials usually preferred to buy from a small group of two or three national companies.
The organisational separation of telecoms services from postal services had begun to result in a more market-oriented outlook.
The most prominent 'consultants' used by businesses to 'position themselves' were game theorists hired by the large telecoms.
