cableco

English

Etymology

Clipping of cable company, perhaps modelled on telco.

Noun

cableco (plural cablecos)

1. (telecommunications) A company that offers cable services (television, Internet, etc.).
   • 1996, Bruce L. Egan, Information superhighways revisited: the economics of multimedia, page 159:

     Both telcos and cablecos can deploy fiber backbone networks at a fraction of the cost of FTTH or even FTTC...