Teleport companies’ revenue increased in 1998 and 1999, World Tel...
Teleport companies’ revenue increased in 1998 and 1999, World Teleport Assn. (WTA) said in Teleport Benchmarks 2000 Survey. WTA said operating companies’ revenue grew 36% with $129 million in sales, average of $14 million in annual revenue for each…
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teleport they owned and $1.6 million per earth station. Teleport operating companies invest average of $3.2 million per year in each teleport they operate. Employment also rose 13%. Companies predicted top business opportunity in next 3 years would be satellite Internet transmission. Finding qualified staff was listed as major concern. WTA Exec. Dir. Robert Bell said “responses suggest that the teleport and satellite industries are coming to resemble more closely the terrestrial side” of communications business whose “evolution has been shaped for years by exploding Internet demand on one hand and the limits of human capital on the other.” Teleport Benchmarks 2000 is available free at WTA’s Web site -- www.worldteleport.org.