% CHANGE 1996 1995
RANK/COMPANY ’95 TO ’96 REVENUE (000’s) REVENUE (000’s)
1 Associated Group Inc. 368.98% $20,035 $4,272
2 Teletouch Communications Inc. 265.75% $31,725 $8,674
3 PriCellular Corp. 171.34% $112,616 $41,504
4 Arch Communications Group Inc. 103.80% $331,370 $162,598
5 Nextel Communications Inc. 93.90% $332,938 $171,703
6 Preferred Networks Inc. 81.57% $13,351 $7,353
7 Western Wireless Corp. 65.87% $243,085 $146,555
8 ProNet Inc. 55.81% $103,056 $66,144
9 Palmer Wireless Inc. 52.27% $159,743 $104,906
10 Rural Cellular Corp. 49.85% $30,460 $20,327
11 Mobile Telecom Technologies Corp. 48.53% $350,529 $235,991
12 United States Cellular Corp. 43.75% $707,820 $492,395
13 PageMart Wireless Inc. 39.20% $221,592 $159,191
14 AirTouch Communications Inc. 39.11% $2,251,700 $1,618,600
15 Metro One Telecommunications 36.41% $17,834 $13,074
16 Metrocall Inc. 35.27% $149,957 $110,859
17 Intercel Inc. 33.48% $39,125 $29,312
18 Centennial Cellular Corp. 31.35% $112,197 $85,419
19 3607 Communications Co. 31.33% $1,095,872 $834,415
20 CommNet Cellular Inc. 28.22% $115,196 $89,844
21 Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. 27.95% $302,054 $236,071
22 Paging Network Inc. 27.32% $822,487 $646,022
23 Telephone & Data Systems Inc. 27.27% $1,214,636 $954,386
24 Paging Partners Corp. 26.23% $6,910 $5,474
25 Comcast Corp. 20.09% $4,038,400 $3,362,900
26 Century Communications Corp. 18.86% $495,274 $416,687
27 BCE Mobile Communications 18.60% $926,300 $781,000
28 Intellicell Corp. 16.28% $81,225 $69,850
29 Century Telephone Enterprises Inc. 16.26% $749,677 $644,840
30 Geotek Communications Inc. 15.59% $92,794 $80,279
31 Ameritech Corp. 11.09% $14,917,000 $13,428,000
32 Sprint Corp. 10.02% $14,044,700 $12,765,100
33 SBC Communications Inc. 9.69% $13,898,000 $12,670,000
34 GTE Corp. 6.92% $21,339,000 $19,957,000
35 BellSouth Corp. 6.45% $19,040,000 $17,886,000
36 U S West Communications Group 6.27% $10,079,000 $9,484,000
37 Mobile Mini Inc. 5.78% $42,210 $39,905
38 AT&T Corp. 3.00% $52,184,000 $50,664,000
39 Alltel Corp. 2.66% $3,192,418 $3,109,725
40 Nynex Corp. 0.35% $13,453,800 $13,406,900
41 Pittencrieff Communications -0.07% $36,030 $36,057
42 British Telecom -2.01% $22,069,000 $22,521,000
43 Bell Atlantic Corp. -2.59% $13,081,400 $13,429,500
44 Omnipoint Corp. N/A $531 $0
Source: Nordby International Inc. Boulder, Colo.
Moving up seemingly from out of nowhere to first place last year in terms of percentage revenue change was the Associated Group.
The Pennsylvania company is the developer of the True Position Enhanced 911 caller location system and a majority owner of Teligent Inc., the startup wireless competitive local exchange carrier headed by former AT&T Corp. President Alex Mandl.
Associated saw its percent revenue explode almost 369 percent from 1995 to 1996,
Teletouch Communications Inc. held onto its second place position for the second straight year, while the 1995 first place holder, InterDigital Communications Corp. dropped out of the rankings altogether in 1996.
Near the bottom of this year’s list are regional Bell companies Bell Atlantic Corp. and Nynex Corp., which both saw decreases in percent revenues from 1995 to 1996. The two companies presently are merging their businesses, which should give them more operating efficiencies.
