The telecommunication is ubiquitous: now served in almost every place of the world where people live. Established more than a hundred years ago this service is going now to be more and more convergent with pure IT. Quite a long time in many countries telco companies were controlled by local governments. From about 30 years this control is getting less and less necessary. In this time period many companies were going public, and therefore significantly more transparent.

This let them to change quicker, but also due to competition constrained to sell their services at decreasing costs. Sometimes it adversely affected their revenues. The review of 70 leading companies proves this undoubtedly. Within past five years the growth pace of their revenues was rather flat. However customers obtain for the same money more and more attractions, e.g. quicker and better performance of Internet access. Privatisation and going public in many coutries led to tremendous growth of international meaning for some stronger telco companies such as: Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Vodafone but also Hutchison, Vodacom China Mobile or Indosat. Their original local markets were too small for their growth. This led to a situation, that in some regions (African, Asian or Eastern European) the strongest telco owners are predominantly international. However partial state control of many local telco areas paradoxically still keeps more divided market structure, than pure IT market looks like.

The revenues of the entities presented here are all translated into US Dollars from a currency of original country where a company is active (and most often registered). Applied exchange rate is annual average for respective years 2011-2015. Reviewed sample of 70 leading telco companies area accounts about $1,4 trillion in total revenue.

The telco segment presented here shows mainly the activity of independent entities specialised in communication. Dependent structures are rather omitted. Many of the presented results in the ranking here refer to total revenues of the company, when a company's core business represents only telecommunication business. In some cases there are shown the revenues of only parts of the company, when its overall specialization significantly stepped out of this area. Such cases represent for example: Sistema, SK and Hutchison conglomerate.

The Revenues 2015 of 70 Remarkable Telecommunication Operators Worldwide

Source: DiS, 2016. ^(e) - estimated value.

The detailed outlook analysis that concerns to

• recent five years,
• recent 10 years,
• future projections,
• a list of 100 telco entities,

is available on demand as well as a list price of these analysis' approach.

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