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This article is for the Telephone Company. For the Tata Group company, see TATA Engineering and Locomotive Company


A telephone company (or telco) provides telecommunications services such as telephony and data communications. Most of the largest telcos are or were at one time nationalized or state-regulated monopolies. These monopolies are often referred to, primarily in Europe, as PTTs.


Telcos are also known as carriers. And with the advent of cellular telephony, telcos now include wireless carriers.


Most telcos now also function as ISPs, and the distinction between telco and ISP may disappear completely over time.


The comedian Lily Tomlin satirized the attitudes of many telcos with the quote:

"We don't care.
We don't have to.
We're the phone company."

Telcos include:

See also:


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Uk Telco (106 words)
UK Telco differs from all other suppliers in two ways, we do not have any end-user clients and thereby purely specialise in channel distribution, thus avoiding all channel conflict between partners and direct sales.
Secondly all UK Telco partners are totally independent and retain ownership of there clients, creating value within their business.
Placing orders with UK Telco is fast and simple using our dedicated web interface.
Telco 2.0 (2054 words)
Telco 2.0 Comment: Apple’s decision to bundle its own services with the iPhone made it rather less like a computer company and rather more like a telco.
Members of the Telco 2.0 team went on a trip to the Italian Lakes this week, where we were stimulating and facilitating an impressively organised conference for Service Delivery Platform experts jNetX and a gaggle of telco people from most parts of Europe.
They’re right, of course; a Telco 2.0 platform is a sort of operating system, just as Salesforce.com or Amazon’s IT infrastructure can be seen as a sort of single huge computer.
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