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PROFITS
Rank
Company
Global 500 rank
$ millions
% change from 2007
$ millions
% change from 2007
1 AT&T 29 124,028 4.3 12,867 7.7 2 Nippon Telegraph & Telephone 44 103,684 10.9 5,362 -3.6 3 Verizon Communications 55 97,354 3.8 6,428 16.4 4 Deutsche Telekom 61 90,260 5.5 2,171 178.7 5 Telefónica 66 84,815 9.8 11,112 -8.8 6 France Télécom 77 78,290 8.0 5,956 -30.9 7 Vodafone 94 69,138 -2.9 5,188 -61.2 8 China Mobile Communications 99 65,015 38.2 11,442 35.8 9 Telecom Italia 166 45,118 4.0 3,241 -3.3 10 Vivendi 207 37,166 25.4 3,810 6.0 11 BT 210 36,626 -13.3 -140 -104.0 12 Sprint Nextel 219 35,635 -11.2 -2,796 N/A 13 KDDI 232 34,814 10.6 2,217 16.3 14 Comcast 237 34,256 10.9 2,547 -1.5 15 China Telecommunications 263 31,814 14.2 -51 -102.3 16 América Móvil 273 31,012 8.8 5,337 -0.5 17 Softbank 332 26,608 9.5 430 -54.8 18 Telstra 410 22,371 18.9 3,304 29.3 19 China United Telecommunications 419 21,981 70.4 2,840 283.2 20 Royal KPN 434 21,373 23.6 1,950 -46.3 21 DirecTV Group 469 19,693 14.2 1,521 4.8
From the July 20, 2009 issue