Actors and Alliances of the future Information Superhighways

Latest update: 29th, August 1999

Laurent POULAIN


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The future Information Superhighways are not only a new IT architecture, they also announce a new market to conqueer, something that companies eager to have a two or three figures growth dream of. As a consequence, lots of companies are preparing for a big battle in the hope of getting a part of this promising market as large as possible.

This document tracks the movements and alliances between those actors. So far, the details about the companies contain an English translation:

America Online
AT&T

Bell Atlantic
BellSouth
Bouygues
BT

Cable & Wireless
Comcast
Cox Communication

Deutsche Telekom

France Télécom

General Electrics
GTE

Microsoft

News Corp.
NTT

Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux
SBC Communications
Sprint
Sony

Telecom Italia
Telefónica
Time Warner

US West

Viacom
Vivendi
Vodafone AirTouch

Walt Disney Company (the)
WorldCom

Sources for companies revenues and income: Hoovers.

and here are the documents which are understandable even for non French-speaking people:

This site will be little by little translated into English. If you prefer to have some pages translated before others, don't hesitate to e-mail me.


Laurent Poulain - Les acteurs et alliances des futures Autoroutes de l'Information