phone company

1. 1.

   a public utility that provides telephone service

   Synonymstelephone companytelephone servicephone servicetelco

   Broaderutility

Questions about phone company

What does phone company mean?

phone company means "a public utility that provides telephone service".

What is another word for phone company?

Close synonyms include telephone company, telephone service, phone service, telco. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is phone company a common word?

phone company is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.