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Telephone company   /tˈɛləfˌoʊn kˈəmpəni/   Listen
Telephone company

noun
1.
A public utility that provides telephone service.  Synonyms: phone company, phone service, telco, telephone service.






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"Telephone company" Quotes from Famous Books



... easy chair within the four walls of his own office, inspecting a line of people who stood before him on the carpet forming a single and attentive rank. In this rank were five men: a policeman, a cab driver, an agent of the telephone company, an agent of the electric company, and a reformed burglar carrying a kit of his ...
— The Tracer of Lost Persons • Robert W. Chambers

... too busy, and I didn't think of it," Kavaalen said insolently. "I'm not supposed to report to you, anyhow. Why didn't your man Olsen tell you; he was with us when we checked with the telephone company." ...
— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper

... not well developed; 215,000 unsatisfied requests for telephone service (1991 est.); in early 1997, Chisinau was considering privatizing its state-owned telephone company domestic: NA international: international connections to other former Soviet republics by landline and microwave radio relay through Ukraine and to other countries by leased connections to the Moscow international ...
— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.



Words linked to "Telephone company" :   public-service corporation, phone service, public utility company, telephone service, public utility, utility



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