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Top 25 Network backbone operators worldwide
RevenueBase identified 831 company matches for network backbone operators worldwide as of November 2026 and tracks 110,075 professional contacts across them, including 28,522 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers company matches for network backbone operators worldwide, found by RevenueBase SmartSearch using the meaning of business descriptions in its company graph at Exact. Ranked by professionals tracked, largest first. Rows show recorded descriptions where available, Exact search membership and the snapshot date. Data refreshed November 6, 2026. Country and city lists for network backbone operators follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase SmartSearch, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest network backbone operators worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23,689 contacts → | ||||
Exact match Recorded description not available. Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 2 | 16,043 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Lumen is the trusted network for the AI-powered world, connecting people, data, and applications through one of the world’s most expansive fiber networks.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 3 | 11,739 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Frontier, a Verizon company, is one of the largest fiber providers in the U.S.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 4 | 6,665 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Colt Technology Services (Colt) is a global digital infrastructure company which creates extraordinary connections to help businesses succeed.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 5 | 3,886 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “For more than 18 years, Zayo Group of companies has helped the world’s most ambitious organizations build the infrastructure behind what’s next.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 6 | 2,523 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Cogent is one of the world's largest Internet Service Providers, delivering high quality Internet, Ethernet, Transport, and Colocation services to more than 138,025 Enterprise and…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 7 | 2,238 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “We are Japan’s global telecommunications pioneer and a Global Fortune 500 company, providing our international customer base with data centers, networks, content delivery, system…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 8 | 2,093 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “We are the digital backbone of Latin America.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 9 | 1,454 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 10 | 1,346 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Today fast, flexible networks are the foundation of every successful organization.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 11 | 1,175 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “PCCW Global is a leading digital infrastructure provider, empowering businesses with agile, scalable and secure connectivity solutions By combining a best-in-class network with…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 12 | 1,124 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “XO Communications is a Verizon company that provides the technology that helps business and wholesale customers compete in a hyper-connected economy.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 13 | 1,013 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Segra owns and operates a wide and dense fiber-optic infrastructure footprint that provides state-of-the-art connectivity, cybersecurity, voice, cloud and colocation solutions…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 14 | 785 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Sparkle is a global service provider offering a complete range of capacity, IP, SD-WAN, colocation, IoT connectivity, roaming and voice solutions designed to meet the ever…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 15 | 749 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Under National Telecommunication Transmission Network (NTTN) license, issued by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), Fiber@Home is developing a completely…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 16 | 596 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Arelion is a leading light in global connectivity services.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 17 | 531 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “IPLAN es la compañía líder en la provisión de Conectividad, Datacenter, Soluciones IT y Servicios Cloud para las empresas de las principales ciudades de la Argentina.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 18 | 522 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “MetroFibre is a carrier-class infrastructure company that provides highly managed, ultra-fast fibre optic broadband connectivity across South Africa.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 19 | 473 contacts → | ||||
Exact match Recorded description not available. Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 20 | 470 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Eurofiber has been a provider of industry-leading open digital infrastructure since Utilizing our own fiberoptic network and datacenters, we provide smart, open, future-proof…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 21 | 442 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “center3 is a leading data center provider delivering world-class infrastructure and connectivity solutions to meet the surging demand for digital services across the Middle East.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 22 | 411 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “ABOUT TERACOM Teracom has its origins in the cradle of radio and TV.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 23 | 385 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “euNetworks (@euNetworks) is a European provider of bandwidth infrastructure services.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 24 | 368 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “A VIP TELECOM é uma marca que faz parte do Grupo Alloha Fibra, a maior empresa independente de fibra Óptica no Brasil.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 25 | 323 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Bluebird Fiber serves the Midwest with a carrier-class fiber network built for the high-bandwidth world of today and the technologies shaping tomorrow.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
RevenueBase SmartSearch
Describe a niche business in your own words. RevenueBase SmartSearch compares the meaning of your description with company business descriptions compiled in the RevenueBase company graph. Exact, Similar, Related and Broad control how closely companies must fit.
This list uses Exact for “network backbone operators”. Each Exact match badge shows membership in that saved search; it is not an individual similarity score or a service-quality rating. Recorded descriptions are shown where available.
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Network backbone operators worldwide at a glance
As of Nov 6, 2026Companies by employee count
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- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase SmartSearch, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for network backbone operators are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Company records worldwide whose business descriptions match “network backbone operators” by meaning at the Exact setting. Descriptions are compiled in the RevenueBase company graph from public websites, profiles and company information where available; they are not guaranteed quotations from the company's website.
- RevenueBase SmartSearch
- Describe a niche company in your own words to find businesses by meaning. Exact, Similar, Related and Broad control the breadth of RevenueBase SmartSearch. This saved list uses Exact. Each row's Exact match badge shows inclusion in that search, not an individual score or a service-quality judgment.
- Public preview
- The public preview omits records without a verified work email. Dataset totals and geographic summaries describe the full matched records before these preview filters.
- Match quality
- RevenueBase's August 25, 2026 study assessed 4,198 description/company pairs across matching settings. The publisher reports 86% good or better at Exact. This evaluates the method across queries; it does not audit this individual list. Recorded company descriptions, where available, help you judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built and what the study measures.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every displayed company carries at least one verified work email. RevenueBase tracks 28,522 professional contacts with verified work emails across the full matched dataset. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on November 6, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Record context
- Company records and descriptions can change. Check the company's website for its current services and locations.
Network backbone operators by location
4 lists · largest firstEvery Network backbone operators list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase SmartSearch?
RevenueBase SmartSearch finds niche companies by the meaning of their business descriptions in the RevenueBase company graph. Exact, Similar, Related and Broad control how closely companies must fit your description. This list uses Exact for “network backbone operators”; each Exact match badge shows search membership, not an individual similarity or quality score.
How many network backbone operators are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 831 company matches for network backbone operators worldwide as of November 2026, using the meaning of business descriptions at Exact. This is the recorded matched set in the RevenueBase company graph.
What is the largest company on this list?
Centurylink tops the displayed preview by professional contacts tracked in RevenueBase. Recorded headquarters appear in the company rows.
Which country has the most network backbone operators?
The United States leads with 166 companies, followed by Brazil (102) and the Netherlands (44). Every network backbone operators list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most network backbone operators?
London leads with 15 company records, followed by Dhaka (9) and New York (8).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work limited free results with 500 credits to start. Upgrading provides access to the 28,522 professional contacts with verified work emails tracked across these 831 companies; direct dials are available where recorded.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on November 6, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase SmartSearch, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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Top 25 network backbone operators worldwide
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Describe the businesses you want in your own words. RevenueBase SmartSearch matches company descriptions by meaning.
RevenueBase records 831 matching company records for network backbone operators worldwide, with 110,075 tracked contacts and 28,522 verified work emails.
This public preview shows 25 selected records ordered by tracked contacts. RevenueBase SmartSearch finds company descriptions that match by meaning at Exact. Snapshot: November 6, 2026.
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Top 25 network backbone operators worldwide
The public list shows selected company records with contact and verified-email coverage. Reported employee bands provide separate company-size context.
| # | Company | Headquarters on record | Reported employees | RevenueBase SmartSearch | Tracked contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Centurylinkcenturylink.comHQ: Monroe, LA, United StatesReported employees: 10001+ | Monroe, LA, United States | 10001+ | Exact match | 23,689 contacts → |
No recorded description excerpt is available for this public record. | |||||
| 2 |  Lumen Technologieslumen.comHQ: Monroe, LA, United StatesReported employees: 10001+ | Monroe, LA, United States | 10001+ | Exact match | 16,043 contacts → |
“Lumen is the trusted network for the AI-powered world, connecting people, data, and applications through one of the world’s most expansive fiber networks.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 3 |  Frontier Internetfrontier.comHQ: Dallas, TX, United StatesReported employees: 10001+ | Dallas, TX, United States | 10001+ | Exact match | 11,739 contacts → |
“Frontier, a Verizon company, is one of the largest fiber providers in the U.S.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 4 |  Colt Technology Servicescolt.netHQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: 5,001-10,000 | London, United Kingdom | 5,001-10,000 | Exact match | 6,665 contacts → |
“Colt Technology Services (Colt) is a global digital infrastructure company which creates extraordinary connections to help businesses succeed.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 5 |  Zayo Groupzayo.comHQ: Denver, CO, United StatesReported employees: 5,001-10,000 | Denver, CO, United States | 5,001-10,000 | Exact match | 3,886 contacts → |
“For more than 18 years, Zayo Group of companies has helped the world’s most ambitious organizations build the infrastructure behind what’s next.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 6 |  Cogent Communicationscogentco.comHQ: Washington, DC, United StatesReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Washington, DC, United States | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 2,523 contacts → |
“Cogent is one of the world's largest Internet Service Providers, delivering high quality Internet, Ethernet, Transport, and Colocation services to more than 138,025 Enterprise and…” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 7 |  Kddi Corporationbiz.kddi.comHQ: Tokyo, JapanReported employees: 10001+ | Tokyo, Japan | 10001+ | Exact match | 2,238 contacts → |
“We are Japan’s global telecommunications pioneer and a Global Fortune 500 company, providing our international customer base with data centers, networks, content delivery, system…” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 8 |  Cirion Technologiescirion.itHQ: Miami, United StatesReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Miami, United States | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 2,093 contacts → |
“We are the digital backbone of Latin America.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 9 |  Airtel Kenyaairtel.comHQ: Nairobi, KenyaReported employees: 201-500 | Nairobi, Kenya | 201-500 | Exact match | 1,454 contacts → |
“Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 10 |  FLŌ Networksflo.netHQ: El Paso, TX, United StatesReported employees: 501-1,000 | El Paso, TX, United States | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 1,346 contacts → |
“Today fast, flexible networks are the foundation of every successful organization.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 11 |  Pccw Global Limitedpccwglobal.comHQ: Hong KongReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Hong Kong | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 1,175 contacts → |
“PCCW Global is a leading digital infrastructure provider, empowering businesses with agile, scalable and secure connectivity solutions By combining a best-in-class network with…” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 12 |  XO Communicationsxo.comHQ: Herndon, VA, United StatesReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Herndon, VA, United States | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 1,124 contacts → |
“XO Communications is a Verizon company that provides the technology that helps business and wholesale customers compete in a hyper-connected economy.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 13 |  SEGRAsegra.comHQ: Charlotte, NC, United StatesReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Charlotte, NC, United States | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 1,013 contacts → |
“Segra owns and operates a wide and dense fiber-optic infrastructure footprint that provides state-of-the-art connectivity, cybersecurity, voice, cloud and colocation solutions…” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 14 |  Sparkletisparkle.comHQ: Rome, ItalyReported employees: 501-1,000 | Rome, Italy | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 785 contacts → |
“Sparkle is a global service provider offering a complete range of capacity, IP, SD-WAN, colocation, IoT connectivity, roaming and voice solutions designed to meet the ever…” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 15 |  Fiber Home LTDfiberathome.netHQ: Dhaka, BangladeshReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Dhaka, Bangladesh | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 749 contacts → |
“Under National Telecommunication Transmission Network (NTTN) license, issued by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), Fiber@Home is developing a completely…” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 16 |  Arelionarelion.comHQ: Solna, SwedenReported employees: 501-1,000 | Solna, Sweden | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 596 contacts → |
“Arelion is a leading light in global connectivity services.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 17 |  Iplan Argentinaiplan.com.arHQ: Buenos Aires, ArgentinaReported employees: 201-500 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 201-500 | Exact match | 531 contacts → |
“IPLAN es la compañía líder en la provisión de Conectividad, Datacenter, Soluciones IT y Servicios Cloud para las empresas de las principales ciudades de la Argentina.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 18 |  Metrofibremetrofibre.co.zaHQ: Highveld, South AfricaReported employees: 501-1,000 | Highveld, South Africa | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 522 contacts → |
“MetroFibre is a carrier-class infrastructure company that provides highly managed, ultra-fast fibre optic broadband connectivity across South Africa.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 19 |  Optical Networkswinempresas.peHQ: San Isidro, PeruReported employees: 201-500 | San Isidro, Peru | 201-500 | Exact match | 473 contacts → |
No recorded description excerpt is available for this public record. | |||||
| 20 |  Eurofibereurofiber.comHQ: Maarssen, NetherlandsReported employees: 501-1,000 | Maarssen, Netherlands | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 470 contacts → |
“Eurofiber has been a provider of industry-leading open digital infrastructure since Utilizing our own fiberoptic network and datacenters, we provide smart, open, future-proof…” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 21 |  Center3center3.comHQ: Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaReported employees: 10001+ | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | 10001+ | Exact match | 442 contacts → |
“center3 is a leading data center provider delivering world-class infrastructure and connectivity solutions to meet the surging demand for digital services across the Middle East.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 22 |  Teracom Samhällsnätteracom.seHQ: Stockholm, SwedenReported employees: 201-500 | Stockholm, Sweden | 201-500 | Exact match | 411 contacts → |
“ABOUT TERACOM Teracom has its origins in the cradle of radio and TV.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 23 |  Eunetworkseunetworks.comHQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: 201-500 | London, United Kingdom | 201-500 | Exact match | 385 contacts → |
“euNetworks (@euNetworks) is a European provider of bandwidth infrastructure services.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 24 |  VIP Telecomvipbrtelecom.com.brHQ: Mauá, BrazilReported employees: 501-1,000 | Mauá, Brazil | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 368 contacts → |
“A VIP TELECOM é uma marca que faz parte do Grupo Alloha Fibra, a maior empresa independente de fibra Óptica no Brasil.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 25 |  Bluebird Fiberbluebirdfiber.comHQ: Kansas City, IA, United StatesReported employees: 201-500 | Kansas City, IA, United States | 201-500 | Exact match | 323 contacts → |
“Bluebird Fiber serves the Midwest with a carrier-class fiber network built for the high-bandwidth world of today and the technologies shaping tomorrow.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
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Network backbone operators: dataset insights
November 6, 2026These summaries describe recorded coverage in this saved dataset. This page is derived from saved source records; per-contact mobile coverage and email-recency results are not established by this snapshot.
Reported company sizes
821 records in the displayed employee bands.
10 matching records are outside the displayed bands or do not have a displayed size. Bars show shares of the displayed bands.
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole country list rather than for Worldwide, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Worldwide, over 831 companies.
How this company list was built
Describe a niche in your own words: companies installing commercial solar, or manufacturers of sustainable packaging. RevenueBase SmartSearch finds companies whose compiled business descriptions match by meaning. This list is one saved example to adapt.
Where the company descriptions come from
RevenueBase compiles company information from public sources, including company websites and public professional profiles such as LinkedIn, alongside information supplied by companies. The short recorded excerpt shown here is separate from the complete business description used for matching; individual source URLs and collection dates are not provided in this public snapshot.
RevenueBase SmartSearch matching settings
- Exact
- Closest fits to the business described.
- Similar
- Similar businesses with a wider range of fits.
- Related
- Related businesses in and around the category.
- Broad
- A broader set of businesses connected to the description.
RevenueBase SmartSearch · Exact match identifies inclusion in this search's closest semantic matching setting. It is not a per-company confidence score, a literal keyword match, or a quality endorsement.
Selection, ordering and scope
The public list shows selected company records with contact and verified-email coverage. Reported employee bands provide separate company-size context.
This page is derived from saved source records; per-contact mobile coverage and email-recency results are not established by this snapshot.
Recorded company descriptions support research; check company websites for current services. The selected preview is ordered by tracked contacts and is not a list of the best service providers.
Snapshot: November 6, 2026.
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its September 3, 2026 published methodology describes a graph of 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts; these platform figures differ from this page's totals. Published methodology ↗
Network backbone operators by location
4 lists · largest firstEvery Network backbone operators list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Questions about this company list
What does Exact match mean for network backbone operators?
The separate RevenueBase SmartSearch column identifies inclusion at the closest semantic matching preset. It is not a literal keyword match, a per-company confidence score or a quality endorsement. Changing the search form opens a new search in RevenueBase; it does not reclassify these saved rows.
How many network backbone operators did RevenueBase find worldwide?
The saved snapshot records 831 matching company records, 110,075 tracked contacts and 28,522 verified emails. The public preview displays 25 selected records.
Where do the company descriptions come from?
RevenueBase compiles company information from public sources, including company websites and public professional profiles such as LinkedIn, alongside information supplied by companies. The short recorded excerpt shown here is separate from the complete business description used for matching; individual source URLs and collection dates are not provided in this public snapshot.
How are the public companies ordered?
The selected public records are ordered by contacts tracked in RevenueBase, highest first. Contact coverage is a prospecting measure, not an assessment of the company's services or quality.
How can I get contact information?
Select a company's contact count to open its filtered contacts in RevenueBase. Free signup is required and includes 500 credits and limited free results. Verified emails, direct dials and mobile numbers depend on available coverage.
How current is this list?
Snapshot: November 6, 2026. Review each company's website for current services and locations. A recorded business description does not establish that every company offers every service named in the search.
What do headquarters and employee bands mean?
These are recorded company-level fields, rather than a map of every branch or a count of specialists. Missing headquarters or employee bands are labeled; older records may show a location separately from recorded headquarters.
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RevenueBase Data Team. Top 25 network backbone operators worldwide. Snapshot: November 6, 2026. https://revenuebase.ai/companies/browse/network-backbone-operators.
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Top 25 network backbone operators worldwide
RevenueBase records 831 matching company records for network backbone operators worldwide, with 110,075 tracked contacts and 28,522 verified work emails.
This public preview shows 25 selected records ordered by tracked contacts. RevenueBase SmartSearch finds company descriptions that match by meaning at Exact. Snapshot: November 6, 2026.
RevenueBase compiles business descriptions for niche-company discovery; each row shows a recorded excerpt where available. Adapt this search to find the companies and contacts you want.
Top 25 network backbone operators worldwide
The public list shows selected company records with contact and verified-email coverage. Reported employee bands provide separate company-size context.
| # | Company | Headquarters on record | Reported employees | RevenueBase SmartSearch | Tracked contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centurylinkcenturylink.com HQ: Monroe, LA, United StatesReported employees: 10001+ | Monroe, LA, United States | 10001+ | Exact match | 23,689 contacts → |
No recorded description excerpt is available for this public record. | |||||
| 2 | Lumen Technologieslumen.com HQ: Monroe, LA, United StatesReported employees: 10001+ | Monroe, LA, United States | 10001+ | Exact match | 16,043 contacts → |
“Lumen is the trusted network for the AI-powered world, connecting people, data, and applications through one of the world’s most expansive fiber networks.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 3 | Frontier Internetfrontier.com HQ: Dallas, TX, United StatesReported employees: 10001+ | Dallas, TX, United States | 10001+ | Exact match | 11,739 contacts → |
“Frontier, a Verizon company, is one of the largest fiber providers in the U.S.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 4 | Colt Technology Servicescolt.net HQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: 5,001-10,000 | London, United Kingdom | 5,001-10,000 | Exact match | 6,665 contacts → |
“Colt Technology Services (Colt) is a global digital infrastructure company which creates extraordinary connections to help businesses succeed.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 5 | Zayo Groupzayo.com HQ: Denver, CO, United StatesReported employees: 5,001-10,000 | Denver, CO, United States | 5,001-10,000 | Exact match | 3,886 contacts → |
“For more than 18 years, Zayo Group of companies has helped the world’s most ambitious organizations build the infrastructure behind what’s next.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 6 | Cogent Communicationscogentco.com HQ: Washington, DC, United StatesReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Washington, DC, United States | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 2,523 contacts → |
“Cogent is one of the world's largest Internet Service Providers, delivering high quality Internet, Ethernet, Transport, and Colocation services to more than 138,025 Enterprise and…” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 7 | Kddi Corporationbiz.kddi.com HQ: Tokyo, JapanReported employees: 10001+ | Tokyo, Japan | 10001+ | Exact match | 2,238 contacts → |
“We are Japan’s global telecommunications pioneer and a Global Fortune 500 company, providing our international customer base with data centers, networks, content delivery, system…” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 8 | Cirion Technologiescirion.it HQ: Miami, United StatesReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Miami, United States | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 2,093 contacts → |
“We are the digital backbone of Latin America.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 9 | Airtel Kenyaairtel.com HQ: Nairobi, KenyaReported employees: 201-500 | Nairobi, Kenya | 201-500 | Exact match | 1,454 contacts → |
“Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 10 | FLŌ Networksflo.net HQ: El Paso, TX, United StatesReported employees: 501-1,000 | El Paso, TX, United States | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 1,346 contacts → |
“Today fast, flexible networks are the foundation of every successful organization.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 11 | Pccw Global Limitedpccwglobal.com HQ: Hong KongReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Hong Kong | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 1,175 contacts → |
“PCCW Global is a leading digital infrastructure provider, empowering businesses with agile, scalable and secure connectivity solutions By combining a best-in-class network with…” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 12 | XO Communicationsxo.com HQ: Herndon, VA, United StatesReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Herndon, VA, United States | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 1,124 contacts → |
“XO Communications is a Verizon company that provides the technology that helps business and wholesale customers compete in a hyper-connected economy.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 13 | SEGRAsegra.com HQ: Charlotte, NC, United StatesReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Charlotte, NC, United States | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 1,013 contacts → |
“Segra owns and operates a wide and dense fiber-optic infrastructure footprint that provides state-of-the-art connectivity, cybersecurity, voice, cloud and colocation solutions…” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 14 | Sparkletisparkle.com HQ: Rome, ItalyReported employees: 501-1,000 | Rome, Italy | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 785 contacts → |
“Sparkle is a global service provider offering a complete range of capacity, IP, SD-WAN, colocation, IoT connectivity, roaming and voice solutions designed to meet the ever…” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 15 | Fiber Home LTDfiberathome.net HQ: Dhaka, BangladeshReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Dhaka, Bangladesh | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 749 contacts → |
“Under National Telecommunication Transmission Network (NTTN) license, issued by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), Fiber@Home is developing a completely…” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 16 | Arelionarelion.com HQ: Solna, SwedenReported employees: 501-1,000 | Solna, Sweden | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 596 contacts → |
“Arelion is a leading light in global connectivity services.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 17 | Iplan Argentinaiplan.com.ar HQ: Buenos Aires, ArgentinaReported employees: 201-500 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 201-500 | Exact match | 531 contacts → |
“IPLAN es la compañía líder en la provisión de Conectividad, Datacenter, Soluciones IT y Servicios Cloud para las empresas de las principales ciudades de la Argentina.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 18 | Metrofibremetrofibre.co.za HQ: Highveld, South AfricaReported employees: 501-1,000 | Highveld, South Africa | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 522 contacts → |
“MetroFibre is a carrier-class infrastructure company that provides highly managed, ultra-fast fibre optic broadband connectivity across South Africa.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 19 | Optical Networkswinempresas.pe HQ: San Isidro, PeruReported employees: 201-500 | San Isidro, Peru | 201-500 | Exact match | 473 contacts → |
No recorded description excerpt is available for this public record. | |||||
| 20 | Eurofibereurofiber.com HQ: Maarssen, NetherlandsReported employees: 501-1,000 | Maarssen, Netherlands | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 470 contacts → |
“Eurofiber has been a provider of industry-leading open digital infrastructure since Utilizing our own fiberoptic network and datacenters, we provide smart, open, future-proof…” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 21 | Center3center3.com HQ: Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaReported employees: 10001+ | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | 10001+ | Exact match | 442 contacts → |
“center3 is a leading data center provider delivering world-class infrastructure and connectivity solutions to meet the surging demand for digital services across the Middle East.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 22 | Teracom Samhällsnätteracom.se HQ: Stockholm, SwedenReported employees: 201-500 | Stockholm, Sweden | 201-500 | Exact match | 411 contacts → |
“ABOUT TERACOM Teracom has its origins in the cradle of radio and TV.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 23 | Eunetworkseunetworks.com HQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: 201-500 | London, United Kingdom | 201-500 | Exact match | 385 contacts → |
“euNetworks (@euNetworks) is a European provider of bandwidth infrastructure services.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 24 | VIP Telecomvipbrtelecom.com.br HQ: Mauá, BrazilReported employees: 501-1,000 | Mauá, Brazil | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 368 contacts → |
“A VIP TELECOM é uma marca que faz parte do Grupo Alloha Fibra, a maior empresa independente de fibra Óptica no Brasil.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 25 | Bluebird Fiberbluebirdfiber.com HQ: Kansas City, IA, United StatesReported employees: 201-500 | Kansas City, IA, United States | 201-500 | Exact match | 323 contacts → |
“Bluebird Fiber serves the Midwest with a carrier-class fiber network built for the high-bandwidth world of today and the technologies shaping tomorrow.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
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Network backbone operators: dataset insights
November 6, 2026These summaries describe recorded coverage in this saved dataset. This page is derived from saved source records; per-contact mobile coverage and email-recency results are not established by this snapshot.
Reported company sizes
821 records in the displayed employee bands.
10 matching records are outside the displayed bands or do not have a displayed size. Bars show shares of the displayed bands.
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole country list rather than for Worldwide, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Worldwide, over 831 companies.
How this company list was built
Describe a niche in your own words: companies installing commercial solar, or manufacturers of sustainable packaging. RevenueBase SmartSearch finds companies whose compiled business descriptions match by meaning. This list is one saved example to adapt.
Where the company descriptions come from
RevenueBase compiles company information from public sources, including company websites and public professional profiles such as LinkedIn, alongside information supplied by companies. The short recorded excerpt shown here is separate from the complete business description used for matching; individual source URLs and collection dates are not provided in this public snapshot.
RevenueBase SmartSearch matching settings
- Exact
- Closest fits to the business described.
- Similar
- Similar businesses with a wider range of fits.
- Related
- Related businesses in and around the category.
- Broad
- A broader set of businesses connected to the description.
RevenueBase SmartSearch · Exact match identifies inclusion in this search's closest semantic matching setting. It is not a per-company confidence score, a literal keyword match, or a quality endorsement.
Selection, ordering and scope
The public list shows selected company records with contact and verified-email coverage. Reported employee bands provide separate company-size context.
This page is derived from saved source records; per-contact mobile coverage and email-recency results are not established by this snapshot.
Recorded company descriptions support research; check company websites for current services. The selected preview is ordered by tracked contacts and is not a list of the best service providers.
Snapshot: November 6, 2026.
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its September 3, 2026 published methodology describes a graph of 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts; these platform figures differ from this page's totals. Published methodology ↗
Network backbone operators by location
4 lists · largest firstEvery Network backbone operators list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
Questions about this company list
What does Exact match mean for network backbone operators?
The separate RevenueBase SmartSearch column identifies inclusion at the closest semantic matching preset. It is not a literal keyword match, a per-company confidence score or a quality endorsement. Changing the search form opens a new search in RevenueBase; it does not reclassify these saved rows.
How many network backbone operators did RevenueBase find worldwide?
The saved snapshot records 831 matching company records, 110,075 tracked contacts and 28,522 verified emails. The public preview displays 25 selected records.
Where do the company descriptions come from?
RevenueBase compiles company information from public sources, including company websites and public professional profiles such as LinkedIn, alongside information supplied by companies. The short recorded excerpt shown here is separate from the complete business description used for matching; individual source URLs and collection dates are not provided in this public snapshot.
How are the public companies ordered?
The selected public records are ordered by contacts tracked in RevenueBase, highest first. Contact coverage is a prospecting measure, not an assessment of the company's services or quality.
How can I get contact information?
Select a company's contact count to open its filtered contacts in RevenueBase. Free signup is required and includes 500 credits and limited free results. Verified emails, direct dials and mobile numbers depend on available coverage.
How current is this list?
Snapshot: November 6, 2026. Review each company's website for current services and locations. A recorded business description does not establish that every company offers every service named in the search.
What do headquarters and employee bands mean?
These are recorded company-level fields, rather than a map of every branch or a count of specialists. Missing headquarters or employee bands are labeled; older records may show a location separately from recorded headquarters.
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RevenueBase Data Team. Top 25 network backbone operators worldwide. Snapshot: November 6, 2026. https://revenuebase.ai/companies/browse/network-backbone-operators.
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