Talk:Telecom

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Why there's a link to india telecom on this page? 69.221.224.93 02:15, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

What is telecom?

The definition of telecommunications as an industry is changing quickly. Has telecom become an all encompassing term for phone, cellular, and ISP? — Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiWhat? (talk • contribs) 14:12, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

By Robin CM (Employee of ICFAI University) Telecom provide a range of fixed line, mobile, data, and Internet communications services.Telecom is a wireline segment represented all over the world, with the help of leading Internet service provider. Besides fixed line telephony, the wireline segment comprises data and IT solutions, Internet access and media, value-added and wholesale services — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.167.23.6 (talk) 14:37, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

The easy way, anytime, anywhere

"The healthy competition among mobile service providers has brought" down telecom tariffs, which were among the highest in the world less than four years ago, to more affordable levels. The falling tariffs have led to the wireless subscriber base growingall over the world.Despite the runaway success, the Indian telecom industry faces many challenges. These include technology upgradation, spectrum availability, network management, customer retention, rural connectivity.....etc

By Robin CM "Employee of ICFAI University" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.167.23.6 (talk) 15:08, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Pointless

This page is not fitting into Wikipedia's structure. It's marked as a disambiguation page, because it started as a list of "telecoms". None of the entities listed, however, is actually ambiguous with the term "telecom". Each has its own name (usually two words). I'm going to redirect the whole thing to telecommunications, and make sure that List of telephone operating companies is referenced there.--Srleffler (talk) 03:17, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

should be a definition

Right now this page redirects to Telecommunications which is acceptable, but didn't serve my purpose today. I wanted to know what sort of company qualifies as a "Telecom" in peoples minds. I first think of cell phone carriers, then companies like Nokia that help put up towers, and I'm not sure if generic handset manufacturers count. Mathiastck (talk) 04:27, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I think the redirect is annoying and can confuse readers around the world. I was looking for information on Telecom Argentina, which, as its article states, is commonly and unambiguously known as just Telecom locally, and got thrown onto the telecommunications article which I did not intend to read. I bet this could happen to people in many places where their local "Telecom" company is colloquially called just that, or people visiting such places. If people really have something against the disambiguation, then they should try to fix its issues or have it deleted, not made into something less convenient. I noticed that the Telecom New Zealand article seems to show that they also call it "Telecom" locally. I have, with these notes, reverted the article to the disambiguation. Following some of my "fix it" advice I removed all the companies using another spelling (such as Telekom) or those that, likely due to ambiguity, don't seem to be called "Telecom" specifically. They appear to be referred to by the full name, by the other components in their name or with an abbreviation (like BT for British Telecom, PT for Portugal Telecom and FT for France Telecom). Who is like God? (talk) 20:32, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

I restored the old content from 2008. Companies that "qualify as a Telecom" are former national telecommunications monopolies. We should have an article on the subject. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 02:31, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

P.S. - Maybe we should just remove the {{disambig}} tag and turn this page into the missing article. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 02:34, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

A lookup of "Telecom" does not necessarily (re)direct to a single article because it can mean different things and thus needs a disambiguation: a) as "telecom" for "telecommunication" in general, b) as "telecom" for a telecommunications company in general, and c) for a telecommunications company with "Telecom" in its name that is often referred by (proper) name shortly as "Telecom", where the full name is unnecessary due to context. Note that in the latter case, "Telecom" appearing in the name is not enough if no one calls that company simply by "Telecom", usually because it would be confusing. This can be determined by referencing the local media (this is why I listed only 4 examples where I've seen it happen... maybe references are needed... and it may or may not happen with other companies with "Telecom" in their name, where I didn't find evidence that it does). So I "reverted" it back, away from that list of companies with Telec/kom in their name, but improved it once again to include the three (a, b, c) possibilities mentioned above, and also added a wiktionary link. Who is like God? (talk) 01:53, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Telecom vs. Telecomm

Why are these two terms treated differently? I'll point out that when I entered "telecom or" into Google's search box, it prompted me with "telecom or telecomm", but none of the first-page results actually dealt with that question. --MrRedwood (talk) 19:56, 16 November 2013 (UTC)