In 2020, the leading telecommunications operator worldwide was the American company AT&T with sales of around 161.5 billion euro. The second biggest operator was the American company Verizon with 117.5 billion euro in sales.
Biggest global telecommunication operators - additional information
Texas-based corporation, AT&T, is the largest telecommunications operator in the world based on revenue in 2020. The company employed over 230,000 people in 2020 and announced a worldwide operating revenue of 171.76 billion U.S. dollars. In 2013, AT&T had a total of almost 183 million wireless subscribers worldwide and provided almost 14.1 million broadband connections in the United States alone.
With revenue of just over 117.5 billion U.S. dollars, Verizon was the second largest global telecom operator in 2020, behind only AT&T. The company, founded in 1983 and based in New York, had 132,200 employees in 2020 and announced a worldwide net income of 17.8 billion U.S. dollars. One of Verizon’s largest sectors is its consumer segment, with which the company generated over 88.5 billion U.S. dollars of revenue in 2020.
Telecommunication operators/companies worldwide by revenue in 2020
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