Margins and profitability in wired, wireless, and satellite telecommunication activities

Wired, wireless, and satellite telecommunication activitiesNACE 61.100

51 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 7.5 % of every krone.

20 % of the companies in this industry posted a negative operating result that year.

The distribution

What companies in the industry earned

One tenth of companies fell below -6.4 %, and one tenth above 27.4 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.

Top against weakest third

Top third
22.3 %
Weakest third
-1.9 %
Spread
24 percentage points
Equity ratio
33.3 %median of 47

Size

Profitability by size

Profitability by size
RevenueCompaniesMedian operating margin
20 to 100 m157.5 %
over 100 m349.0 %

Companies are split into revenue bands, with the median margin in each. Bands with fewer than ten companies are omitted, because the median becomes too unstable to show.

Geography

Where the companies are based

  • Kristiansand S2
  • Alta1
  • Førde1

The six postal towns with the most companies in this industry, by registered business address.

Public contracts

Who in the industry wins public contracts

18 of 51 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 35.3 %.

Those that win have median revenue of 274.3 m kr, against 266.1 m kr for those that do not. That is 1× as much. Note that this describes who wins, not evidence that contracts make companies large; large companies also find it easier to bid.

The 75 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.

  • Vestland fylkeskommune10
  • Anskaffelser i Akershus, Buskerud og Østfold KO4
  • Statens innkjøpssenter v/DFØ3
  • Sandnes kommune3
  • Viken fylkeskommune3

Contracts come from Doffin and TED. Our collection is not complete, and TED covers only contracts above the EEA threshold, so the figures are a floor and not a full count. We say what we find, not what exists.

Questions and answers

Common questions about wired, wireless, and satellite telecommunication activities

What is a normal operating margin in wired, wireless, and satellite telecommunication activities?
The median company kept 7.5 % of every krone. That means half of the 51 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
What separates the best from the weakest in wired, wireless, and satellite telecommunication activities?
The top third kept 22.3 % of every krone, against -1.9 % for the weakest third. The spread is 24 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
How many companies are there in wired, wireless, and satellite telecommunication activities in Norway?
We hold filed accounts for 51 Norwegian companies on this industry code with at least one million kroner in revenue. The real number is higher, since dormant and very small companies are excluded.
How many are loss-making in wired, wireless, and satellite telecommunication activities?
20 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
How large is a typical company in wired, wireless, and satellite telecommunication activities?
Median revenue is 266.1 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 58.7 m kr and 634.9 m kr.
How much do public contracts matter in wired, wireless, and satellite telecommunication activities?
18 of 51 companies, that is 35.3 %, have won at least one public contract since 2022. They have median revenue of 274.3 m kr, against 266.1 m kr for the rest.

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Method. 51 companies registered on industry code 61.100 (Wired, wireless, and satellite telecommunication activities) with filed accounts and at least one million kroner in revenue. The figures come from the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises and are public. Operating margin is operating profit divided by operating revenue.

Each company appears with the most recent accounts we hold for it. For the great majority that is the 2024 filing. Around eight per cent had already filed for 2025 when we collected, and for those the 2025 figures apply. We therefore write "latest accounts" rather than naming a single year.

We show one cross-section and no trend line. Our database has broad coverage for the most recent accounting year, but only a small and non-random sample for earlier years. A curve over time would therefore measure who we happened to collect, not what happened in the industry.

Companies with under one million in revenue are excluded, because dormant limited companies would otherwise pull the median down. We do not publish an industry page until we hold at least 30 companies.

This is a description of an industry, not a ranking of companies. We name no individual company here.

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