5 Biggest Cell Phone Companies in the World

1. AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T)

Total revenue (in millions of dollars): 168,864

Total profits (in millions of dollars): 20,081

Total assets (in millions of dollars): 551,622

Total number of employees: 202,600

Easily topping the list of the 16 biggest cell phone companies in the world is AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T). AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) topped two of the four metrics we considered, while coming in second in one of them. Considered to be the second biggest telephone service provider in the United States, AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is generally considered to have acted as a monopoly during the 20th century in the Untied States. The revenue of the company has more than quadrupled in the past two decades, having recorded $45 billion in revenue in 2001.

Most major companies have controversies surrounding their activities, and AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is no exception. The company has been in hot water over the years for many different issues, such as censorship claims coming in 2007, a privacy controversy faced in 2006 when the company assisted the National Security Agency with wiretapping, copy right enforcement issues in 2008, discrimination conducted against local public-access television channels in 2008, accusation of enabling fraud and overcharging government agencies among several other controversies.

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