"Telecommunication firms" refers to companies that provide services and technology for communication over long distances, such as phone calls, internet connections, and data transmission. Full definition
A similar survey in 2014 found that schools in rural areas where at a disadvantage to bring devices to aid learning in the classroom as they were ill - served by telecommunication firms. (computerworlduk.com)
Those fears increased last August when a government committee choose David Thodey, chief executive of Telstra, Australia's largest telecommunication firm, to chair CSIRO's board. (sciencemag.org)
White space use would not meet all of the bandwidth needs created by new wireless devices, but these unused chunks of spectrum might save telecommunication firms from having to upgrade their wireless cellular networks in the short term, D'Arcy says, adding that «cellular networks are creaking at the moment.» (scientificamerican.com)