Present State of the Telecommunications Industry
Company Revenue Employees
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone $82 billion 231,000
Deutche Telekom $46 billion 220,000
France Telecom $30 billion 168,000
British Telecommunications $23 billion 131,000
Bell South $18 billion 88,000
LM Ericsson $14 billion 86,000
Telefonica Espana $14 billion 99,000
Sprint $14 billion 48,000
Bell Atlantic $13 billion 62,000
Ameritech $13 billion 59,000
SBC Communications $13 billion 69,000
PTT Suisses $12 billion 60,000
Royal PTT Nederland $12 billion 90,000
U.S. West $12 billion 61,000
Total $513 billion 2,429,000
Nearly universal access to dial tone drives a multi-hundred billion dollar telco industry.