Talk:List of telecommunications companies

IDT

I don't see how IDT really fits in this list. Niteowlneils 06:16, 3 May 2004 (UTC)

shouldn't telcel be lited under mexico as well?

Great Page

But network operator shouldn't redirect here, it should go to it's own article, with a prominent link here. Mathiastck 13:49, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

List Inclusion Criteria

I propose all entries that do not have their own article be removed per WP:LIST, at least until we come up with better list inclusion criteria. --Ronz (talk) 22:36, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I think the fact that these companies are in business is a strict enough criteria to provide some limit to length. Most countries have oligopolies in the telecom industry. I agree that external links aren't helpful most of the time and wouldn't mind having them removed for reasons previously stated. —Tokek (talk) 01:30, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay, apparently the list can be long for some companies, e.g. List of Canadian telephone companies, but long ones can be made into sub-articles. I think this article can serve a purpose as a catch-all for countries whose lists are are too short to warrant an article of its own. Basically, I don't think we should apply your list inclusion criteria (must have a Wikipedia article) just yet. —Tokek (talk) 01:39, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

I've started cleanup. --Ronz (talk) 18:27, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Needs to Counter Check

It's bugging me that incomplete data with .... in them are listed. Could someone please hook up the ITU Operator code numbering so we know who the operators are (at least GSM/Mobile/CDMA/AMPS)

thanks Dr R Azrin (talk) 20:07, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

I am going to countercheck the details on ITU GSM Codes to ensure the GSM, CDMA and 4G services are added on properly.

Dr R Azrin (talk) 15:34, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Should this list include mobile virtual network operators at all?

Being a service provider only, should Mobile virtual network operator companies be listed? I'm leaning toward removing them. --Ronz (talk) 17:00, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Agree. JFDI. --Biker Biker (talk) 17:17, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

I'm going ahead with removing them and the fixed virtual operators, which I assume are similar enough. --Ronz (talk) 21:01, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

What about VoIP providers? --Ronz (talk) 21:03, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Subsidiaries of Notable Operators

I'm inclined to keep subsidiaries of notable operators as I did with Nedjma. Any objections or alternatives? --Ronz (talk) 15:21, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Number of Fixed & Mobile Users in Each Country

These statistics for each country are outdated (from as far back as 2010) and unsourced. I'll give these a few weeks, if nothing is improve they should all be removed. Ajf773 (talk) 04:27, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Sort Order of Telecom Companies

Although it is common to rate relative size of companies in any industry by annual revenue, that causes problems with this list. First, probably biggest problem is, the revenue data for all these companies in all these countries are not reported regularly in respect to each other. That makes keeping this list nearly impossible to maintain accuracy. Second problem is comparing companies based on revenue when services offered are different and monetary values from country to country are different. A better way to gauge size and lend to accuracy is to count number of subscribers of specific communication types. For instance, a telecom that has more landline subscribers is not necessarily larger than a company with more VoIP or Broadband subscribers. The list would be more accurate if it were subdivided by service type and then size comparisons by number of subs in that service type. My guess is, in that case, China and India might move up on the list significantly while AT&T might move down significantly. Thoughts??? TadgStirkland⁴⁰¹ (Tadg^Talk) 04:30, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Hi TadgStirkland401 - I realize you posted this last year but I just read your comment now. You make great points but getting that kind of reliable data is even more challenging than revenues, and since the services and technologies are changing so fast in this industry (landline, mobile, cloud, etc.) it that trying to rank them by below-the-line attributes would ultimately lead to dead-ends or stats that are not meaningful. Especially since the perceived value is no longer so much the connection itself as what you do with it but there remains undeniable real-world value in those connections (there's still much consolidation happening to capture them). The markets sort these companies by revenues because it's a tried-and-true summary measure of all the chaos, jockeying and services underneath. If you can figure out how to hunt it down reliably, perhaps the kind of data you're thinking of could be on other Wiki pages... e.g., a listing of leading UCaaS/VoIP players in that page/section, etc.??? Just my two cents. Technutt (talk) 17:24, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Possible Geographical-related Article Split

Could this article be split into say List of telecommunications companies in Europe and List of telecomminications companies in Asia & Oceania like the List of mobile network operators article(s)? I think it would make it easier to actually edit AND read when it's broken down like that, obviously the World's largest telecom companies by total revenue section would be kept on the central article with the current name.

Who knows, if this all was to happen then perhaps List of mobile network operators could be merged into this article and the "subarticles." Just an idea, would like to hear people's thoughts on it. Professional Adriazeri (talk) 00:00, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

List vs Categories

This list page seems very long which causes a multitude of problems. First and foremost, keeping all of the entries, links and citations accurate and timely is an enormous effort for editors. Secondly, readability and usefulness to any typical reader is questionable at best. So, I have 2 different suggestions.

Proposal 1: Break this article into smaller articles, grouped either by continent, region or country. This proposal would initially be a huge task for anyone.

Proposal 2: Several of the regions or countries already have Wikipedia Category pages, some with subcategories. Maybe these categories could be entered as links on this article under the appropriate country, and those phone companies listed here could be removed. Benefit: Category pages are auto-generated lists, which would remove the necessity to keep editing this page. Also, if the main article for any company is moved due to corporate mergers/acquisitions/rebranding and such, the category page would keep up with those automatically.

Thoughts about either proposal? — TadgStirkland⁴⁰¹ (Tadg^Talk) 05:15, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

It should be split into regions (e.g. List of telecommunications companies of Europe) and those regional articles should be merged with the associated List of mobile network operators articles. Adriazeri (talk) 19:37, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Split into regional articles

This page should be split into regional articles (List of telecommunications companies of the Americas, List of telecommunications companies of Europe, List of telecommunications companies in Asia and Oceania and List of telecommunications companies Middle East and Africa) and the similar articles for mobile network operators should be merged into the split articles. Adriazeri (talk) 19:53, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Notified: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Companies, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lists, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Telecommunications. Adriazeri (talk) 20:21, 5 August 2024 (UTC)