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Top 25 Telecommunications companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 3,176 telecommunications companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 565,700 professional contacts across them, including 117,783 with verified work emails and 227,548 with mobile numbers. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers telecommunications companies headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. 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 6, 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 companies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | RevenueBase Smart Search | Contacts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indirect evidence | 149,412 contacts → | |||
“We understand that our customers want an easier, less complicated life.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | Indirect evidence | 39,870 contacts → | |||
“Thanks for everything!” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | Indirect evidence | 30,997 contacts → | |||
“For company news and job opportunities, please follow us at: Spectrum is powered and innovated by Charter Communications.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | Indirect evidence | 22,745 contacts → | |||
“CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) is a technology leader delivering hybrid networking, cloud connectivity, and security solutions to customers around the world.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | Indirect evidence | 15,336 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.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | Indirect evidence | 12,837 contacts → | |||
“You’re more than a business, agency or organization leader.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | Indirect evidence | 11,368 contacts → | |||
“Frontier, a Verizon company, is one of the largest fiber providers in the U.S.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | Indirect evidence | 10,818 contacts → | |||
“EarthLink is a top U.S.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | Indirect evidence | 7,275 contacts → | |||
“Windstream and Uniti have merged - Please follow us at Uniti Group, Inc.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | Indirect evidence | 6,379 contacts → | |||
“Cable One Business offers scalable, reliable, and efficient solutions so that the businesses we serve can be successful.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | Indirect evidence | 2,459 contacts → | |||
“Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), an innovator in satellite and multi-transport technologies and networks since 1971, provides broadband equipment and services; managed…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | Strong evidence | 2,419 contacts → | |||
“TDS Telecommunications LLC (TDS Telecom/TDS®) delivers high-speed internet, TV entertainment, and phone services to a mix of small to mid-sized urban, suburban and rural…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | Indirect evidence | 2,407 contacts → | |||
“Suddenlink is the seventh largest cable operator in the United States, supporting the information, communication and entertainment demands of approximately 1.4 million residential…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | Indirect evidence | 2,276 contacts → | |||
“EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq: SATS) is a premier provider of technology, networking services, television entertainment and connectivity, offering consumer, enterprise, operator…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | Strong evidence | 2,270 contacts → | |||
“Granite is a dynamic and rapidly growing company serving the exciting and demanding Telecommunications market.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | Indirect evidence | 2,106 contacts → | |||
“Adtran, Inc.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | Indirect evidence | 2,026 contacts → | |||
“Bright House Networks is the sixth largest owner and operator of cable systems in the U.S.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | Indirect evidence | 1,959 contacts → | |||
“Infinera is now part of Nokia.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | Indirect evidence | 1,954 contacts → | |||
“At Optimum, we believe in the power of connection.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | Indirect evidence | 1,938 contacts → | |||
“Metronet, the nation's fastest-growing fiber-to-the-home builder, is now owned by a joint venture of T-Mobile, America's 5G leader, and KKR, the global investment firm.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | Strong evidence | 1,781 contacts → | |||
“Liberty Latin America (NASDAQ: LILA and LILAK, OTC Link: LILAB) is a leading telecommunications company operating in over 20 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean under…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | Indirect evidence | 1,609 contacts → | |||
“Hi, we’re glad you’re here!” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | Strong evidence | 1,438 contacts → | |||
“Doing business as Alltel Wireless, Allied Wireless Communications Corporation (AWCC) is a wireless telecommunications provider based in Little Rock, Arkansas.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | Strong evidence | 1,420 contacts → | |||
“Hotwire Communications is a national leader in fiber optic technology, delivering advanced, customized telecommunications solutions to residential, commercial, senior-living…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | Indirect evidence | 1,418 contacts → | |||
“On Sept.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 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 companies. 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 companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of telecommunications companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name telecommunications companies. 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 companies based in the United States at a glance
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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 companies, 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “telecommunications companies”. 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 companies), 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 companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 117,783 across the full list. 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 September 6, 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 companies by metro
- Telecommunications companies in New York63
- Telecommunications companies in Houston55
- Telecommunications companies in Miami42
- Telecommunications companies in Atlanta32
- Telecommunications companies in Dallas30
- Telecommunications companies in Austin25
- Telecommunications companies in Los Angeles25
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 companies, 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 companies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 3,176 telecommunications companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
At&t, headquartered in Dallas, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most telecommunications companies?
New York leads with 63 headquartered companies, followed by Houston (55) and Miami (42).
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 117,783 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 3,176 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 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 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.
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