U.S. Telecom Operators

As every on knows, the strength of several major U.S. operators are very strong, and we can often see their names appear on the world's top 500 list. Next, we will mainly introduce the three major U.S. telecommunications operators, namely AT & T, VERIAZON, SPRINT-NEXTEL.

First, we would like to introduce to the U.S. telecom operator, AT & T, that is, once monopolized the telecommunications market in the U.S. . American Telephone Telegraph Company (AT & T) is an American telecommunications company founded in 1877, had long monopolized the U.S. long-distance and local phone market. AT & T, formerly known as the United States Bell Telephone Company in 1877 created by bell, the inventor of telephone. AT & T established plants in Thailand, Germany, Singapore. Have subsidiaries or joint venture in Italy, South Korea, Japan and other countries. In September 1995, the company's breakup into three separate companies: communications services companies, telecommunications equipment companies, computer information services company, and quit the field of personal computers. AT & T in the past 20 years, has had many spin-off and restructuring. Currently, AT & T is the largest U.S. local and long distance telephone company, it headquartered is in San Antonio, Texas. The company attaches great importance to research and develop new products. April 9, 2009, "Forbes" magazine online edition assess latest Global 2000 enterprises according to firm size, profits, assets, market value of the , AT & T ranked No. 7

The next we want to say is the U.S. operator VERIAZON. Verizon operate telecom & wireless business in 45 countries in the U.S., Europe, Asia, the Pacific and other global areas, listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Verizon is establish by this: two United States original region Bell operating companies - Bell Atlantic and Nynex merger, establish the BellAtlantic, after the establishment, BellAtlantic merge with the independent telephone company GTE in June 30, 2000 again, after the company merger, Verizon became the United States in one fell swoop the largest local phone company, the largest wireless communications company, the world's largest print Yellow Pages and online yellow pages information provider. February 2005, the second-largest U.S. mobile operator Verizon acquisition of the second-largest long-distance fixed-line telecommunications operator MCI, after the acquisition is completed, Verizon became the second full service operators. The acquisition lasted 11 months, during this period share price fell 13.4% (corresponding to the S & P500 index was up 7%), as of April 21, 2008 stock price than the tender offer Day (January 6, 2006) was up 17% (corresponding to the S & P500 index was down 9%).

Then we talk about U.S. operators SPRINT-NEXTEL which is already in third place.

Sprint is the fourth-largest U.S. wireless operator. Sprint is a global communications company provide service to 2,600 million commercial and residential customers in more than 100 countries. December 15, 2004, the United States third-largest mobile operator Sprint announced a 35 billion U.S. dollars acquisition of the fifth-largest U.S. mobile operator Nextel, the combined company named Sprint Nextel. Sprint Nextel is a place with 40 million customers in the United States the third-largest mobile operator.