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Telecom Argentina

Telecom Argentina S.A. is an Argentine telecommunications company created in 1990 from the privatization of state-owned ENTel, offering fixed and mobile telephony, broadband, and pay TV under the Personal brand.

Telecom Egypt

Telecom Egypt (Arabic: المصرية للاتصالات, brand name WE) is Egypt's first integrated telecommunications operator, majority state-owned, offering mobile, broadband, and subsea cable services and holding 45 percent of Vodafone Egypt.

Telecom Éireann

Telecom Éireann (Bord Telecom Éireann) was Ireland's state-owned telecommunications operator, created under the 1983 act and vested in 1984, holding the national phone monopoly until privatization as Eircom in 1999.

Telecom Italia

Telecom Italia, also known as Telecom Italia S.p.A., is an Italian telecommunications operator, listed on the FTSE MIB, with large mobile operations in Italy and Brazil.

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is the statutory regulator of telecom services in India, established by Act of Parliament with effect from 1997.

Telecom-wavelength InAs/GaAs quantum dots

Telecom-wavelength InAs/GaAs quantum dots are self-assembled indium arsenide nanostructures in gallium arsenide engineered to emit at the low-loss telecom bands near 1,300 and 1,550 nm.

Telecommunication Technology Committee

The Telecommunication Technology Committee (TTC; 情報通信技術委員会) is a Japanese standards development organization, founded in 1985 after telecom liberalization, that develops ICT network standards and partners in 3GPP.

Telecommunications

Telecommunications, also known as telecoms, is the transmission of information over a distance by electrical or electromagnetic means, covering telephone, mobile, satellite, and internet networks.

Telecommunications Act 1984

The Telecommunications Act 1984 is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament, given royal assent in April 1984, that privatized British Telecom, removed its telephone monopoly, and created the regulator Oftel.

Telecommunications Act of 1996

The Telecommunications Act of 1996, also called the Telecom Reform Act, is a United States federal law opening telecom markets to competition, the first major overhaul since 1934.

Telecommunications and postal ministries and agencies of Africa

A survey of the African ministries and agencies responsible for telecommunications and postal services, covering the typical ministry-regulator-operator structure and country examples like Nigeria, Liberia, and Cameroon.

Telecommunications device for the deaf

A telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), also called a TTY or textphone, is an electronic device for text communication over a telephone line, used by deaf people.

Telecommunications engineering

Telecommunications engineering is the branch of engineering that designs, builds, and standardizes systems transmitting information over distance, spanning transmission, switching, radio-frequency design, spectrum management, and network operations.

Telecommunications in Australia

Telecommunications in Australia, also known as Communications of Australia, is the nation's telephone, mobile, and broadband network system, which grew from colonial telegraph lines into a fully competitive industry.

Telecommunications in Ethiopia

Telecommunications in Ethiopia cover the country's telephone, internet, and mobile money services, provided by state-owned Ethio Telecom for over a century until Safaricom Ethiopia entered in 2022.

Telecommunications in Ghana

Telecommunications in Ghana is the country's system of fixed-line, mobile, internet, and broadcasting services, regulated by the National Communications Authority since 1996 and connected internationally by submarine fiber-optic cables.

Telecommunications in India

Telecommunications in India covers the country's telephone, mobile, and broadband services, one of the world's largest mobile markets with over 1.2 billion subscribers as of November 2025, regulated by TRAI.

Telecommunications in Indonesia

Telecommunications in Indonesia is the system of telephone, mobile, and internet services in the world's largest archipelagic state, where 176 million mobile subscriptions make it the Asia-Pacific's third-largest mobile market.

Telecommunications in North Korea

Telecommunications in North Korea are the state-controlled telephone and mobile services, run on the Koryolink and Kangsong networks with a closed national intranet called Kwangmyong.

Telecommunications in Singapore

Telecommunications in Singapore: IMDA-regulated market under the Telecommunications Act 1999 with four MNOs (Singtel, StarHub, M1, Simba/TPG), 160.7% mobile penetration, nationwide NGNBN fibre open access, and 95% standalone 5G coverage since 2022.

Telecommunications Industry Association

The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is an Arlington, Virginia trade association representing over 400 communications companies, formed in 1988 and accredited by ANSI to develop standards.

Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman

The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) is an independent Australian dispute resolution service, established in 1993, that investigates consumer and small business complaints about phone and internet providers free of charge.

Telecommunications network

A telecommunications network, also known as a communications network, connects geographically separated users through transmission links and switching nodes, including the PSTN, cellular networks, and packet-switched data networks.

Telecommunications relay service

A telecommunications relay service lets people who are deaf or have speech disabilities make phone calls through a communications assistant, required in the US since 1990.

Telecommunications standards bodies of Africa and the Middle East

The telecommunications standards bodies of Africa and the Middle East are layered organizations, from AFSEC and ARSO at continental level down to subregional regulators' groups like EACO, CRASA, and WATRA.

Telecommunications Workers Union (Canada)

The Telecommunications Workers Union (TWU) was a Canadian trade union that represented telecommunications workers, principally at BC TEL and later Telus, and became USW Local 1944 in 2015.

Teledermoscopy

Teledermoscopy is a telemedicine method in dermatology in which dermoscopic images of skin lesions are transmitted to a remote specialist for consultation and triage of suspected skin cancer.

Teledildonics

Teledildonics, also called cyberdildonics, are internet-connected sex toys, such as vibrators and sleeves, that transmit touch digitally so partners can interact remotely in real time.

Teledyne Technologies

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated is an American industrial technology company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California, providing sensors, digital imaging, instrumentation, and aerospace and defense electronics; it acquired FLIR Systems in 2021.

Telefon Bay

Telefon Bay: small bay on the NW side of Port Foster, Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, at 62°56'S 60°40'W. Named Baie du Telefon after the SS Telefon, beached there in winter 1909; charted by Charcot's French expedition.