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Top 25 Telephone companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 694 telephone companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 340,404 professional contacts across them, including 73,063 with verified work emails. Houston is the largest hub.
This list covers telephone 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 16, 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 telephone companies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 149,412 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We understand that our customers want an easier, less complicated life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 7,275 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Windstream and Uniti have merged - Please follow us at Uniti Group, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 2,270 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Granite is a dynamic and rapidly growing company serving the exciting and demanding Telecommunications market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,954 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Optimum, we believe in the power of connection.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,781 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “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: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,186 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Shentel has been keeping communities connected since 1902.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,131 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Over the last two decades our mission has evolved dramatically.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are an innovative telecommunications company with a nationwide footprint and a passion for empowering the small businesses that power the communities we serve.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,000 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “XO Communications is a Verizon company that provides the technology that helps business and wholesale customers compete in a hyper-connected economy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 728 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Breezeline, we’re always looking for above and beyonders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 542 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TelePacific company is now TPx Communications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 431 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Astound Broadband powered by Grande connects you to a world of astounding possibilities with our award-winning internet service and 24x7 local customer support.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 414 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Great service is all about providing you with the ultimate experience, and that’s something you will always receive with Arvig.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 398 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Ritter Communications, we have over a century-long tradition of providing quality residential and business communication services all across Arkansas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 392 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “5G & MEC Acceleration” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 326 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Antietam Broadband, a privately owned corporation, was founded in 1966.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 319 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nex-Tech connects thousands of people and businesses through a robust broadband network with cutting-edge technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 260 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ACC Business was founded on a simple idea: provide small to mid-sized businesses first-rate telecom services with dedicated customer service, all at a competitive price.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 247 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fidelity Communications provides high-speed internet, cable television and phone service to residential and business customers in the greater Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 209 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Nsight has roots in providing quality local telephone service through Northeast Telephone Company which date back to 1910.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 151 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “United Communications is a leading provider of internet and phone services to enterprise-class businesses and residential customers in Middle Tennessee.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ANI Networks is a leader in the wholesale, carrier-class telecommunications industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Telecom Management is one of the largest telecommunications agencies representing more than 30 different telecom & data carriers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 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: telephone 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 telephone companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of telephone companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name telephone 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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Telephone companies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 694 companies.
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 telephone 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 “telephone 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 telephone 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 telephone 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, 73,063 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 16, 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.
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 telephone 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 telephone companies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 694 telephone 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 telephone companies?
Houston leads with 13 headquartered companies, followed by New York (13) and Miami (10).
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 73,063 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 694 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 16, 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.