Tlc: overtaking big digital, telco beat on profits and revenues (2)

(ANSA) – ROME, 07 JUL – As regards investments, the Authority points out that historically those made by telcos are always higher than those of platforms. However, for telephone operators, during the period examined, the annual amount of investments did not show significant changes (in particular, starting from 2015 equal to approximately 160 billion per year), while for the platforms these have more than quadrupled, passing progressively from around 30 at the beginning of the period to over 140 billion last year.

In relation to revenues, platform investments remain significantly lower than that correspondingly resulting for telephone operators: in the last 5 years, on average, they have made annual investments for just under 17.7% of revenues (9.3% in the case of of platforms) and in 2021 this ratio has essentially not changed (18.1% against 9.8%).

Finally, looking at employees, in 2021, the total number of employees of the two aggregates is equivalent (1.99 million platform employees against 2.15 million for telco). However, the paths have been very different: the growth of the former is largely due to Amazon, which in the last 5 years alone has increased its employees by about 1 million. At the same time, the employees of the other platforms in the entire period went from 230,000 to 570,000, with an average annual increase of 10.7%, a significantly higher value than that recorded by telcos (+ 1.2%) whose moreover, employees have tended to decline starting from 2015.

The average figure is the result of different trends, depending on the geographic areas of reference: in the entire period the three Asian operators have overall increased the number of employees by 350 thousand units, while the US and European companies, respectively, have reduced them by over 100,000 and 40,000 units. (HANDLE).

Source: Ansa

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