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wireless

[wahyuhr-lis] / ˈwaɪər lɪs /
ADJECTIVE
communicating without material contact
Synonyms
STRONGEST
Wi-Fi
STRONG
WEAK
Antonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
landline


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That refers to a model whereby companies can rent network capacity from established providers and sell wireless plans under their own brands.

From MarketWatch Jul. 25, 2026

The broadband market has gotten more crowded and more competitive, with the major wireless companies stepping up their investments in home-internet plans through both fiber offerings and fixed-wireless-access offerings that leverage their existing cellular networks.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

Just as wireless companies are encroaching on Charter’s core connectivity business, Charter has also been pushing deeper into the mobile industry.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Shortly after CEO Dan Schulman took over the top post, he vowed in January that the company would stop being a “hunting ground” for wireless competitors looking to pick up new subscribers of their own.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

A longtime telecommunications analyst named Kevin Roe told the paper that 75 percent or more of wireless company revenue came from drivers well into the 1990s.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

We had one phone in the hall, wirelesses and typewriters; we wrote our essays by hand and we weren’t forever on call, stressed, agitated, panicking and with a squillion, brain-mashing choices to make.

From The Guardian Mar. 12, 2016

Correspondents filed endless wirelesses, but no event of real importance disturbed the word-painted ship upon its word-painted ocean.

From Time Magazine Archive

But in London last week, a considerable fraction of the population rose from warm beds and sat shivering beside wirelesses to hear the 7 a.m. news report of the Battle of Adelaide.

From Time Magazine Archive

"You still putting your faith in those wirelesses your uncle was going to have zigzagging round?"

From Flappers and Philosophers by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)




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