Top 20 Fixed Telephone Line Operators
Ranked by 1997 main telephone
lines
| Rank | Main telephone lines | Local telephone service revenue | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97 | 96 | Operator (Country) | Total (000s) 1997 | Change (96-97) | Total (US$ million) 1997 | Change (96-97) | As % of total revenue 1997 | ||
| 1 | 2 | DGT (China) | 70'310 | 28.0% | $ 6'491 | * | 48.8% | 37.1% | |
| 2 | 1 | NTT (Japan) a | 60'380 | -1.8% | $ 15'382 | * | 5.4% | 21.6% | |
| 3 | 3 | Deutsche Telekom (Germany) | 45'200 | 2.3% | $ 6'696 | 7.8% | 17.8% | ||
| 4 | 8 | Bell Atlantic (United States) | 39'714 | 3.7% | $ 13'113 | 4.4% | 43.4% | ||
| 5 | 4 | France Télécom (France) | 33'700 | 1.5% | $ 4'326 | 20.3% | 16.5% | ||
| 6 | 16 | SBC (United States) | 33'440 | 5.0% | $ 9'568 | 9.3% | 38.5% | ||
| 7 | 5 | BT (United Kingdom) a | 27'651 | 0.4% | $ 4'968 | 5.2% | 18.9% | ||
| 8 | 6 | Telecom Italia (Italy) | 25'698 | 1.7% | $ 5'579 | 10.0% | 33.3% | ||
| 9 | 7 | BellSouth (United States) | 23'201 | 4.8% | $ 8'499 | 5.2% | 41.3% | ||
| 10 | 9 | GTE (United States) | 21'539 | 7.7% | $ 5'531 | 7.6% | 26.7% | ||
| 11 | 10 | Ameritech (United States) | 20'544 | 4.3% | $ 6'413 | 5.7% | 40.1% | ||
| 12 | 11 | KT (Korea (Rep.)) | 20'422 | 4.2% | $ 2'132 | 4.5% | 46.0% | ||
| 13 | 15 | US West (United States) | 16'033 | 3.9% | $ 5'021 | 5.3% | 49.8% | ||
| 14 | 14 | Telefónica (Spain) | 15'854 | 2.9% | $ 6'644 | 6.3% | 62.8% | ||
| 15 | 17 | Türk Telekom (Turkey) | 15'744 | 10.2% | $ 1'435 | * | 169.5% | 74.0% | |
| 16 | 18 | Telebras (Brazil) | 15'407 | 14.1% | $ 7'492 | 98.7% | 40.4% | ||
| 17 | 19 | DOT (India) a | 14'395 | 24.8% | … | * | … | … | |
| 18 | 20 | Bell Canada (Canada) | 10'607 | 3.3% | $ 3'026 | 10.1% | 46.8% | ||
| 19 | 21 | Chungwa Telecom (Taiwan-China) b | 10'429 | 8.9% | $ 784 | * | 9.1% | 13.7% | |
| 20 | 22 | Telstra (Australia) b | 9'350 | 2.0% | $ 1'297 | 0.8% | 11.3% | ||
| TOP 20 | 529'619 | 6.5% | 114'397 | 11.4% | 30.3% | ||||
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