Telecommunications: Organizations in this industry Filter Business Operation topics

Share This
Telecommunications

Telecommunications

Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded drumbeats...

Learn more about Telecommunications »
Add More Topics Save this view to a base, or just for yourself.

about 1,000 Business Operation topics matching:

Filter this Collection

AOL

In 2006, AOL shifted its strategy to build on these strengths, making its popular e-mail and AOL software, along with other services, available free to anyone with an Internet connection. AOL continues to move forward on this strategy in 2007, with...

BT Group

BT Group plc (trading as BT) (LSE: BT.A, NYSE: BT) is a British multinational telecommunications services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is one of the largest telecommunications services companies in the world and has operations...

Industry:

Ericsson

Ericsson (Telefonaktiebolaget L. M. Ericsson) (OMX: ERIC B, NASDAQ: ERIC), one of Sweden's largest companies, is a provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services, covering a range of technologies, including...

Operating Income:

Revenue:

Net profit:

Lucent Technologies

Lucent (officially Lucent Technologies, Inc.) was an American multinational technology company composed of what was formerly AT&T; Technologies, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs. It was spun off from AT&T; on September 30, 1996. Lucent...

Revenue:

Net profit:

Motorola

Motorola, Inc. ( /moʊtɵˈroʊlə/) was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011,...

Operating Income:

Current Liabilities:

Revenue:

Competitive space:

Current Assets:

Retained Earnings:

Total Liabilities:

Total Assets:

Net profit:

Nokia

Nokia Corporation (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈnɔkiɑ]) (OMX: NOK1V, NYSE: NOK, FWB: NOA3) is a multinational communications corporation headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Helsinki. Its principal products are mobile electronic...

Operating Income:

Revenue:

Competitive space:

Netscape

Netscape Communications (formerly known as Netscape Communications Corporation and commonly known as Netscape) is a US computer services company, best known for Netscape Navigator, its web browser. When it was an independent company, its...

TeliaSonera

TeliaSonera AB is the dominant telephone company and mobile network operator in Sweden and Finland. The company has operations in other countries in Northern, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Spain, with a total of 150 million mobile customers (2010...

Net profit:

Telefónica

Telefónica, S.A. (Spanish pronunciation: [teleˈfonika]) is a Spanish broadband and telecommunications provider in Europe, United States, and Latin America. Operating globally, it is the sixth largest mobile network provider in the world. The company...

Operating Income:

Revenue:

Net profit:

Telstra

Telstra Corporation Limited (ASX: TLS, NZX: TLS; known as Telstra) is an Australian telecommunications and media company, building and operating telecommunications networks and marketing voice, mobile, internet access and pay television products and...

Industry:

Verizon Communications

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ, NASDAQ: VZ) (branded as Verizon/vərˈaɪzən/) is a global broadband and telecommunications company and a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It started in 1983 as Bell Atlantic (based in Philadelphia)...

Operating Income:

Current Liabilities:

Revenue:

Current Assets:

Retained Earnings:

Cash:

Total Liabilities:

Total Assets:

Net profit:

Iridium

Iridium Communications Inc. (formerly Iridium Satellite LLC; NASDAQ: IRDM) is a company, based in McLean, Virginia, United States which operates the Iridium satellite constellation, a system of 66 active satellites used for worldwide voice and data...

Industry:

France Télécom

France Telecom S.A. is a French telecommunications company in France, the third-largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. It currently employs about 180,000 people (half outside France) and has 192.7 million customers worldwide (2010)....

Operating Income:

Revenue:

Net profit:

MCI Inc.

MCI, Inc. (d/b/a Verizon Business) is an American telecommunications subsidiary of Verizon Communications that is headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia. The corporation was originally formed as a result of the merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications,...

Revenue:

Net profit:

Comptel

Comptel Corporation is an international software company specialising in telecommunications. Comptel was founded in Helsinki, Finland in 1986, the trade register entry was made on 30th June. Initially company was a system development and IT...

Industry:

Global Crossing

Global Crossing Limited was a telecommunications company that provided computer networking services worldwide, and operated a tier 1 carrier. It maintained a large backbone and offered transit and peering links, VPN, leased lines, audio and video...

Operating Income:

Current Liabilities:

Revenue:

Current Assets:

Retained Earnings:

Total Liabilities:

Total Assets:

Net profit:

Telenor

Telenor Group is the incumbent telecommunications company in Norway, with headquarters located at Fornebu, close to Oslo. Today, Telenor Group is mostly an international wireless carrier with operations in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Asia,...

Industry:

Orange SA

Orange, formerly Orange plc, is a telecommunications corporation of British origin that became a subsidiary of Mannesmann in 1999 and subsequently, in 2000, of the France Telecom group. Orange is the flagship brand of the France Telecom group for...

CompuServe

CompuServe (CompuServe Information Service, also known by its acronym CIS) was the first major commercial online service in the United States. It dominated the field during the 1980s and remained a major player through the mid-1990s, when it was...

DirecTV

DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV) is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the...

Dish Network

Dish Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) is the largest United States satellite broadcaster, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million...

Industry:

Time Warner

Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX), (formerly AOL Time Warner) is an American multinational media corporation headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. As of mid-2010, it was the world's second largest media and entertainment conglomerate...

Operating Income:

Current Liabilities:

Revenue:

Current Assets:

Retained Earnings:

Cash:

Total Assets:

Net profit:

European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N.V. (EADS)

The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N.V. (EADS) is a global pan-European aerospace and defence corporation and a leading defence and military contractor worldwide. The group includes Airbus as the leading manufacturer of commercial...

T-Mobile

T-Mobile International AG is a German holding company for Deutsche Telekom AG's various mobile communications subsidiaries outside Germany. Based in Bonn, Germany, its subsidiaries operate GSM, UMTS and LTE-based cellular networks in Europe, the...

Competitive space:

TELUS

Telus (TSX: T, NYSE: TU) is a national telecommunications company in Canada that provides a wide range of telecommunications products and services including internet access, voice, entertainment, video, and satellite television. The company is based...

Operating Income:

Revenue:

Industry:

Alcatel

Alcatel SA was a global company, headquartered in France that provided hardware, software and services to telecommunications service providers and enterprises. Alcatel sells equipment for mobile and fixed voice communication networks, data networks...

Industry:

PCCW

PCCW Limited (Chinese: 電訊盈科有限公司) is the holding company of HKT Group Holdings Limited, a Hong Kong based Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) company. PCCW also holds a majority interest in Pacific Century Premium Developments Limited....

Industry:

Western Union

The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) is a financial services and communications company based in the United States. Its North American headquarters is in Englewood, Colorado. Up until 2006, Western Union was the best-known U.S. company in the...

Operating Income:

Revenue:

Total Liabilities:

Total Assets:

Net profit:

Tandberg

This article is about the video-conferencing vendor, a Cisco company. Other companies with the same name such as Tandberg Television or Tandberg Data for data storage: see here and here Tandberg is a manufacturer of videoconferencing systems,...

Industry:

Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom AG (abbreviated DTAG, English: German Telecom) is a German telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the largest telecommunications company in Europe. Deutsche Telekom was formed in...

Operating Income:

Revenue:

Net profit:

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (日本電信電話株式会社, Nippon Denshin Denwa Kabushiki-gaisha), commonly known as NTT, is a Japanese telecommunications company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Ranked the 31st in Fortune Global 500, NTT is the largest...

Operating Income:

Revenue:

SES Astra

SES Astra SA was a corporate subsidiary of SES, based in Betzdorf, in eastern Luxembourg, that maintained and operated the Astra series of geostationary communication satellites between 2001 and 2011. Formed in 1985 as Société Européenne des...

Industry:

Afghan Wireless Communication Company

Afghan Wireless (AWCC) is a cellular network provider in Afghanistan which was launched on 13 November 2002 by Ehsan Bayat. It is a joint venture business between Telephone Systems International in the United States and the Afghan Ministry of...

Industry:

Western Electric

Western Electric Company (sometimes abbreviated WE and WECo) was an American electrical engineering company, the manufacturing arm of AT&T; from 1881 to 1995. It was the scene of a number of technological innovations and also some seminal...

Industry:

Qwest

Qwest Communications International, Inc. was a large United States telecommunications carrier. Qwest provided local service in 14 western U.S. states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon,...

Operating Income:

Current Liabilities:

Revenue:

Current Assets:

Retained Earnings:

Cash:

Total Liabilities:

Total Assets:

Net profit:

Bell Canada

Bell Canada (commonly referred to as Bell) is a Canadian telecommunications and media company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. Including its subsidiaries such as Bell Aliant, Northwestel, Télébec, and NorthernTel, it is the incumbent local...

Operating Income:

Revenue:

Ameritech

AT&T; Teleholdings, Inc., formerly known as Ameritech Corporation (and before that American Information Technologies Corporation), was a U.S. telecommunications company that arose out of the 1984 AT&T; divestiture. Ameritech was one of the seven...

Industry:

Qualcomm

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) is an American global telecommunication corporation that designs, manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services based on its code division multiple access (CDMA) technology and other...

Operating Income:

Current Liabilities:

Revenue:

Current Assets:

Retained Earnings:

Cash:

Total Liabilities:

Total Assets:

Net profit:

Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics (SEC, Korean: 삼성전자, KRX: 005930, KRX: 005935, LSE: SMSN, LSE: SMSD) is a South Korean multinational corporation, specializing in electronics and information-technology (IT), and is headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. SEC is the...

Operating Income:

Revenue:

Competitive space:

Nortel Networks

Nortel Networks Corporation, formerly known as Northern Telecom Limited and sometimes known simply as Nortel, was a multinational telecommunications equipment manufacturer headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. On January 14, 2009, Nortel...

Operating Income:

Revenue:

Belgacom

The Belgacom Group is the largest telecommunications company in Belgium, headquartered in Brussels. Belgacom Group is primarily state owned, with the Belgian state holding 53.3% + 1 share. Belgacom Group offerings include fixed line communication...

Huawei

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. Huawei is the largest China-based networking and telecommunications equipment...

Vodafone Romania

Vodafone is a Romanian mobile phone network operator. It launched in April 1997 as the first GSM network in Romania (although not the first mobile phone network). Until October 2005 (shortly after acquisition by Vodafone), it was known as Connex,...

Industry:

Comcast

Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA, CMCSK) is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and third largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, telephone service and...

Operating Income:

Current Liabilities:

Revenue:

Competitive space:

Current Assets:

Retained Earnings:

Cash:

Total Liabilities:

Total Assets:

Net profit:

Orange România

Orange România is Romania's largest GSM network operator, the subsidiary of Orange SA. It is now fully owned by the France Télécom Group (who owns Orange SA), the biggest initial investor, who gradually increased its ownership. Between 1997 and...

Industry:

Sony Mobile Communications

Sony Mobile Communications AB (formerly Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB) is a multinational mobile phone manufacturing company headquartered in London, United Kingdom and a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation. It was founded on...

Competitive space:

Industry:

Avaya

Avaya Inc. (pronounced /əˈvaɪ.ə/) is a privately held computer networking, information technology and telecommunications company that is a global provider of business communications systems. The international headquarters is in Basking Ridge, New...

Industry:

Zapp Mobile

Zapp Mobile is the first CDMA 450 MHz mobile phone operator in Romania, now part of Cosmote. Zapp has around 200,000 subscribers left, giving the CDMA network around 1% market share, and the number is declining because of migration of the customers...

Industry:

Bezeq

Bezeq, the Israeli company for communications, (Hebrew: בזק‎) is a telecommunications provider in Israel. Until the mid-first decade of the 21st century when it was owned by the Israeli government, Bezeq had a monopoly on landline telephony and...

Jaleco

Jaleco Ltd (ジャレコ, Ja-Re-ko) is a Japanese video game publisher and developer established in 2006. The original Jaleco Ltd (now called Emcom Holdings) was founded in 1974. In 2006, it decided to become a pure holding company by renaming itself Jaleco...

VeriSign

Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) is an American company based in Reston, Virginia that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, and ...

Operating Income:

Current Liabilities:

Revenue:

Current Assets:

Retained Earnings:

Cash:

Total Liabilities:

Total Assets:

Net profit:

PIPEX Communications

Daisy Group plc (formerly known as Freedom4 Group plc and Pipex Communications plc) is a British company that sells Internet and telecommunications services, including hosting, broadband Internet connections, and VOIP. The company traces back to the...

SNET

The Southern New England Telephone Company (commonly referred to as SNET by its customers) is a local exchange carrier owned by AT&T.; It started operations on January 27, 1878 as the District Telephone Company of New Haven. It was the founder of...

Industry:

BellSouth

BellSouth Corporation is an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia. BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies after the U.S. Department of Justice forced the American Telephone &...

Revenue:

Industry:

Net profit:

Prodigy

Prodigy Communications Corporation (Prodigy Services Corp., Prodigy Services Co., Trintex) was an online service that offered its subscribers access to a broad range of networked services, including news, weather, shopping, bulletin boards, games,...

Industry:

Southwestern Bell

Southwestern Bell Telephone Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T.; It does business as AT&T; Southwest and other d/b/a names in its operating region. The company is currently headquartered in Dallas, Texas at One AT&T; Plaza. Southwestern...

Industry:

Research In Motion

Research In Motion Limited (TSX: RIM, NASDAQ: RIMM) or RIM is a Canadian multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, that designs, manufactures and markets wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile and...

Operating Income:

Current Liabilities:

Revenue:

Competitive space:

Current Assets:

Retained Earnings:

Cash:

Total Liabilities:

Total Assets:

Net profit:

Sirius Satellite Radio

Sirius Satellite Radio is a satellite radio (SDARS) service operating in North America, owned by Sirius XM Radio. Headquartered in New York City, with smaller studios in Los Angeles and Memphis, Sirius was officially launched on July 1, 2002 and...

Operating Income:

Current Liabilities:

Revenue:

Current Assets:

Retained Earnings:

Cash:

Total Liabilities:

Total Assets:

Net profit:

Persona Inc.

Persona Communications, formerly Regional Cablesystems, was a cable television, Internet and telecommunications provider in Canada. Persona was purchased by EastLink in 2007. At that point it ceased to be an independent company, and was used only as...

Industry:

Optus

SingTel Optus Pty Limited is the second largest telecommunications company in Australia, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications (ASX: SGT). The company primarily trades under the Optus brand, while maintaining several...

Industry:

Net profit:

Edit Collection Schema
All topics in this collection are typed as Business Operation
Use Data from this Collection
Choose a format:

Images and articles are not included in export files, which are limited to 1000 items. Complete data dumps are also available here.

Flag this Collection
Why do you want to flag this collection?