Telecommunications Industry Guide

With all the right connections, Houston is the ideal place for telecommunications providers and heavy users of telecommunications. Among telecommunications providers are companies such as Caprock Communications and AT&T. Heavy-users in the industry run the gamut from customer contact centers to data centers, back-office operations and shared-services operations.

Telecommunications Facts

  • According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2004 County Business Patterns, the Houston metro area has nearly 400 wired telecom carriers, more than 280 wireless telecom carriers and more than 280 Internet service providers, Web search portals and data processing service providers.
  • The U.S. Census Bureau also found that the Houston region has more than 220 establishments involved in data processing, hosting and related services, or 20.2 percent of the state total. That does not count firms with in-house data processing operations.

Houston's Telecommunications Industry Downloadable PDF Fact Sheets

In the past 10 years, industry giants such as AT&T and Verizon and smaller telecommunications-related companies have continued to expand their workforces and and infrastructure across the region.

Telecommunications Resources in Houston