Broad Telecom Industry: Focus on Frontier
By Mel Daris:The broad telecommunications industry currently encompasses:
- Companies providing local and long distance voice services, sometimes referred to as plain old telephone service (or "POTS")
- A plethora of new data and internet services for both residential and commercial customers
- Switched access services that allow telecoms to complete calls on each other's networks
- Equipment sales
Frontier Communications (FTR), with revenue of about $5.2 billion and a market capitalization of about $4.4 billion, occupies an industry position between industry behemoth AT&T (T), which has revenue of about $127 billion and a market capitalization of about $187 billion, and FairPoint Communications (FRP), with revenue of about $963 million and a market capitalization of about $109 million. Two other companies that compete directly with Frontier in the space are CenturyLink (CTL) and Windstream (WIN). CenturyLink has revenue of about $15.4 billion and a market capitalization of about $24.1 billion while Windstream has revenue of aboutComplete Story »
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