Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!chinacat!telecom-gateway From: pcf@galadriel.british-telecom.co.uk (Pete French) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Who is the Top Telco? Message-ID: Date: 1 Dec 89 09:36:59 GMT Sender: news@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG Lines: 26 Approved: telecom-request@chinacat.lonestar.org X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 546, message 2 of 8 >British Telecom (BT) keeps telling its staff that it is striving to >become "TOP TELCO". >This implies that it is not top telco yet. >SO......... >Just who is the world's top telco? Exactly what we asked ... and there doesn't seem to be a definate answer. How do you measure "success" anyway - profit/market share/size of network ???? This Digest has a wide readership - how about someone from every country posting stats on their PTT and getting someone to compile tables so that we can come up with an answer to this one for a few categories. Anyone volunteering to collate results ? When this subject was first brought up I think that the answer most generally agreed upon was that Erricsson were probably top at the moment. Any comments anyone ? -Pete French. | "The rhythm's gone, British Telecom Research Labs. | The radio's dead. Martlesham Heath, East Anglia. | And the damage done, All my own thoughts (of course) | Inside my head."