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In recent years there has been a non-negotiable need to be communicated always and at all times, likewise, the growing and constant demand for wireless communication networks and technological inventions of communication and information, have allowed and demanded that the telecommunications market continues to develop an infrastructure worldwide very powerful and fast, obviously there are companies more important than others, with better impact, great economic capital and greater reach, for this reason today we will know which are the best cell phone companies in the world.
The 7 best cell phone companies
The following are the 7 best positioned companies in the mobile telephony market, based on their market expansion, capitalization and services offered.
AT&T Inc
Founded in 1880, AT&T Inc. is an American company that provides telephone services in more than 200 countries around the world, is estimated to have an approximate capital of $ 260.38 billion dollars and projects about 35,000 Wi-Fi access points.
In 2008 it acquired Time Warner for $ 85 billion dollars and together with DirecTV obtained for $ 48.5 billion dollars in 2015 and BellSouth in 2006 ($ 86 million dollars) they form WarnerMedia, the largest multinational conglomerate of media and entertainment communications worldwide, offering mobile and fixed telephony services, satellite TV, home security, digital TV and broadband Internet with a customer data of 355 million in 55 U.S. cities.
China Telecom
Headquartered in Beijing, China Telecom is a state-owned telecommunications company that leads 80% of China’s entire mobile telephony network and 67% of fixed telephony and broadband, as well as owning 80% of the country’s entire fiber optic infrastructure. This company has more than 336.335 million subscribers in mobile services, 110.770 million customers in fixed telephony and nearly 153 million customers in fixed broadband services, making it one of the largest telecommunications corporations in the world with an estimated market capital of $31.17 billion dollars. It offers mobile, fixed telephony and broadband Internet services.
Telefónica
Another mobile telephony company is Telefónica, with presence in 17 countries in Europe and most of Latin America, has a market capital of $ 31.52 billion, which makes it one of the largest private telecommunications companies in the world. It was founded in Spain in 1994 and currently has 272 million customers in mobile telephony, about 8 million in television and 12 million in fiber and cable, providing fixed telephony services, mobile, Internet and TV networks, also offers cloud computing, mobility services, data centers, business voice and security services. The company is known through its 3 main brands Movistar, O2 and Vivo.
Vodafone Group plc
Located in the United Kingdom, specifically in London, Vodafone Group Plc, is a British multinational telecommunications company, with a presence in more than 150 countries in the regions of Asia, Africa, Europe and Oceania, considered one of the best in the world, with a market capitalization of $ 45.19 billion dollars, a very important customer base of 625 million in mobile telephony, 27 million fixed broadband customers and 22 million television customers.
China Mobile
With a market capital of US$164.21 billion, China Mobile Ltd. is a state-owned telecommunications company with more than one billion mobile subscribers, its telecommunications network provides nationwide services, serving 188 million fixed broadband customers, making it the telephone operator with the most subscribers worldwide.
América Móvil
In Latin America, we represent the Mexican company América Móvil S.A.B. de C.V., which is present in 25 countries in Latin America, Europe and North America, offering services to more than 280 million subscribers in mobile telephony and 83 million in fixed telephony, broadband and pay television for a total of 363 million access lines. It has a market capital of 57.07 billion dollars.
Softbank
From Tokyo, Japan, stands out the corporate group Softbank, a multinational telephone conglomerate founded in 1981, which has a market capital of 99.35 billion dollars and although in its beginnings it was only a software distributor, today this telecommunications company is much more than that, since it provides mobile, fixed and broadband telephone services, as well as Internet e-commerce, technological services, marketing, semiconductor design, robotics, among others.
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