Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A telephone company (or telco) provides telecommunications services such as telephony and data communications. Most of the largest telcos are or were at one time nationalized or state-regulated monopolies. With the advent of cellular telephony, telcos now include wireless carriers. Most telcos now also function as ISPs, and the distinction between telco and ISP may disappear completely over time. The comedian Lily Tomlin satirized the attitudes of many telcos with the quote: "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company." Telcos include: AT&T BC TEL Belgacom Bell Bell Canada British Telecom Cable and Wireless France Telecom Deutsche Telekom GTE ITT Level 3 Nortel NTT Orange SBC Communications SFR Sprint Telefonica Teleglobe Telia Telstra TELUS Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd WorldCom Verizon See also: ISP PSTN This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.