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Telecommunications carriers: the worldwide list
RevenueBase identified 7,370 telecommunications carriers across the 32 countries with a published list, as of September 2026, and tracks 1,180,053 professional contacts across them, including 200,372 with verified work emails and 0 with mobile numbers. Brazil is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This is the worldwide list of telecommunications carriers: the 32 country lists RevenueBase publishes for the category, summed and ranked as one. The company count is that sum, not a census of every company on earth; a country with no published list is not counted. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, 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 telecommunications carriers across the 32 countries with a published list
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 149,412 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We understand that our customers want an easier, less complicated life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 71,767 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with revenues of 40.3 billion euros in 2024 and employees worldwide at 31 December 2024, including employees in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 67,946 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Airtel was founded to provide global connectivity and unlock endless opportunities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 54,718 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Telefónica is today one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world in terms of market capitalisation and number of customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 31,885 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe it’s people who give purpose to our technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 30,997 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For company news and job opportunities, please follow us at: Spectrum is powered and innovated by Charter Communications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 30,465 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Prazer, somos a Claro!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 29,859 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vivo (Telefônica Brasil) is part of the Telefónica Group and with more than 94 million customers, of which 75 million mobile and 19 million fixed, we are the largest…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 19,263 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are driving the digital transition of Italy and Brazil with innovative technologies and services because we want to contribute to accelerating the sustainable growth of the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 13,574 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Connect with Mzansi’s Best* Value Network as we enable everyday ambitions.#TelkomIsIconic #PossibleBeginsHere To learn more about Telkom, visit:” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 13,021 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our 15 talented colleagues serve millions of customers every day in one of the world’s most connected regions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 12,837 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “You’re more than a business, agency or organization leader.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 12,790 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Turkcell is a converged telecommunication and technology services provider, founded and headquartered in Türkiye.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 12,676 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Globe is a leading full-service telecommunications company in the Philippines and publicly listed in the PSE with the stock symbol GLO.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 10,818 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EarthLink is a top U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 10,668 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Desde el origen en 1964, uno de nuestros motores para avanzar y evolucionar ha sido el querer ser un aporte para el desarrollo futuro de las personas, las empresas y la sociedad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 10,623 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pakistan’s number one digital operator and the largest internet and broadband service provider with over 70 million subscribers nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 10,572 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Telecom Argentina, a connectivity solutions and entertainment company with over collaborators throughout the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 7,585 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) is a Saudi company launched commercially in May 2005.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 7,275 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Windstream and Uniti have merged - Please follow us at Uniti Group, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 6,767 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vodafone Business is part of the Vodafone Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 6,513 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Smart Communications Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 6,465 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Add life to life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 6,379 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cable One Business offers scalable, reliable, and efficient solutions so that the businesses we serve can be successful.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 5,324 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Claro Chile es filial de América Móvil, el tercer operador de telecomunicaciones en el mundo y el más grande de Latinoamérica.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: telecommunications carriers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names telecommunications carriers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of telecommunications carriers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name telecommunications carriers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Telecommunications carriers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among telecommunications carriers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- This worldwide list is the sum of the 32 country lists RevenueBase publishes for telecommunications carriers, largest first: Brazil, the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Italy, Canada, India, Germany, Australia and 22 more. Its company and contact totals add up those lists, so they understate the true worldwide figures: a country with no published list is not counted. The ranked table is exact across the countries covered, the largest companies of every country list ranked together with duplicates removed.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “telecommunications carriers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names telecommunications carriers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among telecommunications carriers, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- 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 listed company carries at least one verified work email, 200,372 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- The country lists behind this page were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Telecommunications carriers by location
35 lists · largest firstEvery Telecommunications carriers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date; the worldwide figures above are the sum of the 32 country lists.
Countries
- Telecommunications carriers based in Brazil1,651
- Telecommunications carriers based in the United States1,634
- Telecommunications carriers based in the United Kingdom642
- Telecommunications carriers based in Spain361
- Telecommunications carriers based in France327
- Telecommunications carriers based in Italy306
- Telecommunications carriers based in Canada273
- Telecommunications carriers based in India255
- Telecommunications carriers based in Germany235
- Telecommunications carriers based in Australia226
- Telecommunications carriers based in South Africa150
- Telecommunications carriers based in Mexico142
- Telecommunications carriers based in the Netherlands118
- Telecommunications carriers based in Poland113
- Telecommunications carriers based in Argentina101
- Telecommunications carriers based in Türkiye80
- Telecommunications carriers based in Indonesia76
- Telecommunications carriers based in Colombia69
- Telecommunications carriers based in Peru60
- Telecommunications carriers based in the United Arab Emirates58
- Telecommunications carriers based in Pakistan54
- Telecommunications carriers based in Chile51
- Telecommunications carriers based in Portugal51
- Telecommunications carriers based in Belgium48
- Telecommunications carriers based in Sweden47
- Telecommunications carriers based in Switzerland45
- Telecommunications carriers based in Malaysia40
- Telecommunications carriers based in Ecuador38
- Telecommunications carriers based in New Zealand35
- Telecommunications carriers based in Saudi Arabia29
- Telecommunications carriers based in Greece28
- Telecommunications carriers based in the Philippines27
Cities
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names telecommunications carriers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many telecommunications carriers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 7,370 telecommunications carriers across the 32 countries with a published list, as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code. The figure is the sum of those country lists, not a census of every company worldwide.
What is the largest company on this list?
At&t, headquartered in Dallas, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most telecommunications carriers?
Brazil leads with 1,651 companies, followed by the United States (1,634) and the United Kingdom (642). Every country with a published telecommunications carriers list is linked on this page.
Which city has the most telecommunications carriers?
Sao Paulo leads with 160 headquartered companies, followed by London (103) and Rio De Janeiro (53).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 200,372 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 7,370 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. The country lists behind this page were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
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 Smart Search, 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.