All Other Telecommunications (NAICS 517810): An Investor's Primer

1. Overview

"All Other Telecommunications" is the U.S. government's catch-all bucket for telecom businesses that don't fit the big, familiar categories. It is defined by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) — the code system the Census Bureau uses to sort businesses — under 2022 code 517810 [1]. It is a residual, specialized-telecom category, not a conventional facilities-based carrier sector, and it holds two very different kinds of business under one roof:

1. Non-carrier voice and internet services — companies that sell phone, messaging, or internet service that rides over the customer's own telecommunications connection rather than a network the seller built. Think business "cloud phone" providers and the now-dying dial-up internet services [1].
2. Specialized radio-frequency (RF) and space-ground services — satellite tracking, communications telemetry, radar-station operation, and satellite earth stations or "teleports" (the big ground antennas that talk to satellites) [1].

The defining feature: firms here do not operate as telecommunications carriers — they don't own the underlying access network. So the household-name telecoms (Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, T-Mobile) are not in this code; they sit in adjacent ones. What's left is a mix of small, competitive cloud-communications companies and a mostly private, government-fed satellite-ground-services business. Both ride structural tailwinds — the shift of business phone service to the cloud, and the explosion of low-orbit satellites that all need ground antennas.

Public vs. private ways in. Public-market investors get exposure mainly through a handful of small- and micro-cap voice/messaging companies (Ooma, 8x8, Bandwidth, Crexendo, IDT's net2phone) plus a few adjacent proxies. The satellite-ground and specialized-RF side is overwhelmingly private — venture- and private-equity-backed operators, foreign champions, government agencies, and defense-IT contractors — so private capital, not public stock, is how most owners participate there. The core investment question is subsegment economics: recurring subscription and mission-critical revenue can be sticky, while legacy dial-up, paging, and low-end voice face structural decline, and satellite/terminal businesses grow faster but carry launch, spectrum, and capital risk. Sections 4 and 10 map the routes in.

2. What it is and how it's structured

Scope (what's in). Per the official definition, 517810 covers establishments providing "specialized telecommunications services, such as satellite tracking, communications telemetry, and radar station operation," plus satellite terminal stations (earth stations/teleports) linked to terrestrial networks, plus internet or Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP — phone calls carried as internet data) services delivered "via client-supplied telecommunications connections." The unifying thread is that these firms do not operate as carriers over their own network [1].

What it excludes — and the adjacent codes that catch it. This is where most of the economic weight actually lives:

The main classification trap is satellite: operating a satellite network belongs to 517410, while satellite tracking stations and certain ground terminals belong to 517810 [1]. Separately, many fast-growing "cloud communications" software firms are coded as software publishers (513210) or data processing (518210) rather than here — an important measurement wrinkle (Section 3).

A naming note for research. In the prior 2017 NAICS vintage this same industry carried the code 517919; the 2022 revision renumbered it to 517810 with essentially the same definition [1]. Data providers and older filings still use 517919, so both codes point to the same industry.

Ownership mix. Federal data count 1,673 firms operating 1,932 establishments — so most are single-location, independently owned small businesses, with a minority of multi-site operators [2][3]. The federal statistics do not publish a public-vs-private split, but in practice ownership spans a thin slice of listed companies, private cloud-communications platforms, private-equity- and venture-backed operators, foreign satellite-ground firms, government-owned facilities, and business units buried inside large defense-IT and cloud companies. Because companies report across several NAICS codes at once, peer comparisons are inherently imperfect.

3. How big it is

Using our ground-truth federal figures:

A few things stand out. Revenue per employee is roughly $790,000 — extraordinarily high for a services industry — and payroll is only about 16% of receipts [2][3]. That is the signature of two low-labor models sitting together: capital-light resellers that pass a lot of carrier costs straight through, and capital-heavy satellite/teleport operators where expensive antennas, not people, do the work. Average revenue per firm is roughly $13 million, but that average is misleading because revenue is concentrated (below).

The undercount caveat — read this before quoting the size. The federal figures are real but understate what a layperson would call "other telecom," for several reasons:

• Coverage gaps by design. County Business Patterns excludes nonemployer businesses (the self-employed), and the Economic Census generally excludes government-owned establishments; Census also notes some very small multi-establishment employers can be missed. These are an employer-business baseline, not the full footprint [4].
• Classification leakage. Many of the fastest-growing cloud-communications firms — large unified-communications and messaging-API platforms — are counted as software or data processing, so the biggest dollars associated with "internet phone service" sit outside 517810 [1].
• Government activity is invisible. Much satellite tracking, telemetry, and radar-station operation is performed in-house by the Department of Defense (DoD), NASA, and NOAA, or by contractors coded under professional/technical services [4].
• Legacy decline. Part of the historical firm count is dial-up-era internet providers — a shrinking, low-value tail.

Two comparability notes: the receipts figure is from the 2022 Economic Census while employment and payroll are from 2023 County Business Patterns, so treat them as a consistent baseline drawn from two adjacent-year releases rather than one snapshot; and older data will appear under the 2017-vintage code 517919. For outside context, a private research estimate (IBISWorld) put the broader industry near $24.5 billion in 2025 revenue with growth around 2.4% [6] — a useful sanity check, but built on a slightly different boundary than the Census establishment count. Treat the federal ~$21 billion as a firm floor for the establishment-based residual, not the full economic footprint.

Concentration. Despite ~1,700 firms, revenue is moderately concentrated: the top 4 firms hold 59.5% of receipts, the top 8 hold 69.7%, the top 20 hold 81.1%, and the top 50 hold 89%; the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI — a standard 0–10,000 concentration gauge) is 1,232 [2]. In plain terms, a handful of large operators dominate the dollars, trailed by a very long tail of tiny resellers and niche shops. Because 517810 blends several economically different businesses, treat the HHI as a broad indicator, not a precise competition measure [2].

4. The investable universe

There is no clean, code-pure public basket. Public exposure clusters on the voice/cloud-communications side; the satellite-ground side is mostly private. Two honest caveats: (a) these companies straddle NAICS lines — some revenue could be coded as software or as carrier service — so treat this as exposure to the theme, not a precise index of 517810; and (b) market values are point-in-time (approximate, mid-2026) and move.

Core listed exposure — non-carrier voice/messaging:

Adjacent at scale — where the big cloud-communications money actually trades (usually coded as software): RingCentral (RNG) [13], Zoom, and Twilio are far larger than anything above but generally sit outside 517810. If you want the theme at liquid scale, these are the names — just know they're a different code.

Adjacent satellite operators (mostly 517410, not 517810), included only as thematic proxies: Iridium (IRDM) [14], Globalstar (GSAT) [15], Viasat (VSAT) [16], EchoStar (SATS) [17], and AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) [18] own and fly networks — that is satellite telecommunications, a separate code — but investors often reach for them when they mean "space communications." AST is an emerging direct-to-device (D2D) LEO play with high build-out risk.

The specialized space-ground and RF segment — mostly not public. This is the part that genuinely sits in 517810's "space" definition, and it is overwhelmingly private:

• Ground-Station-as-a-Service (GSaaS) and teleport operators: KSAT (Kongsberg Satellite Services, Norway; ~280 antennas, credited with coining "GSaaS") [24], ATLAS Space Operations, RBC Signals, Leaf Space, US Electrodynamics — all private or foreign.
• Cloud/hyperscaler ground networks: AWS Ground Station (Amazon) and Azure Orbital (Microsoft) — a rounding line inside mega-caps.
• Government tracking/telemetry/radar contractors: Peraton (private), SAIC, Leidos, Amentum, KBR, Parsons, Booz Allen — public, but this work is a small, code-scattered slice of diversified defense-IT firms, not a pure play.

Representative private owners and recent take-privates: Intermedia Intelligent Communications (cloud communications via a large partner channel), acquired by 26North from Madison Dearborn Partners in 2026 [20]; KORE (Internet-of-Things (IoT) connectivity), whose announced take-private involves Searchlight Capital Partners and Abry Partners [21]; Zayo (private communications infrastructure backed by DigitalBridge and EQT — principally adjacent wired infrastructure) [22]; and SpaceX's Starlink, a private satellite-connectivity operator and major adjacent 517410 competitor [27].

Bottom line: the cleanest listed exposure is a set of small-cap cloud-phone companies; the satellite-ground growth story is largely a private-market and defense-contractor story.

5. How the money works

Owners in this code make money in two distinct ways.

Model A — Non-carrier voice/messaging (asset-light, subscription). These firms sell seats and usage that ride on the customer's own broadband, so they carry little network capital. The economics look like software:

• Recurring revenue measured as subscribers/seats × average revenue per user (ARPU), rolled up into monthly and annual recurring revenue (MRR/ARR).
• Net revenue retention (how a customer cohort grows or shrinks year over year), churn (customer loss), and customer-acquisition cost (CAC) vs. payback period are the health metrics.
• Gross margins typically run in the 60–75% range, dented by call-termination fees, number costs, and telecom taxes/regulatory fees the firm must remit.
• Messaging/voice-API players (e.g., Bandwidth) layer usage-based pricing (per message, per minute) on top — lower-margin but scales with customer volume. The winning motion is "land and expand": start small, then grow seats and add-ons (video, contact center, AI features) to lift ARPU faster than headcount.

Model B — Teleports, GSaaS, and government RF services (asset-heavy or contract-based).

• Antenna-time sales. Ground-station operators sell time on expensive fixed antennas, priced per "pass" (one overhead contact with a satellite), per minute, or as subscription capacity. Because the cost base is fixed, utilization is everything: once an antenna is built, each additional pass is high-margin, and a globally dispersed footprint (especially polar sites that see every low-orbit pass) is a source of pricing power [24].
• Government service contracts for tracking, telemetry, and radar-station operation are typically cost-plus or fixed-price, backlog-driven, lower-margin (single digits to low teens) but sticky and recession-resistant — the customer is the government.

Across both models, the operating metrics that matter are subscribers/connections/devices in service, ARPU and usage, churn and renewal rates, network uptime and capacity utilization, gross margin after carrier/data-center/spectrum costs, bookings and backlog, customer concentration, capital expenditure (satellite replenishment, terminals, antennas), free cash flow (FCF), and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) adjusted for lumpy launch or integration costs. The blended economics of the whole code — high revenue per head, low payroll share — reflect exactly this barbell of pass-through resellers and capital-intensive antenna operators [2][3]. Note that the federal file provides no industry-wide utilization, margin, capex, or growth series, so those must be underwritten company by company.

6. What drives demand

On the voice/messaging side:

• The cloud phone transition. Businesses keep retiring on-premises phone systems and legacy plain-old-telephone-service (POTS) copper lines for cloud calling; carriers sunsetting old copper accelerates this and is a tailwind for line-replacement products (e.g., Ooma) [7].
• Hybrid work and small-business digitization, plus international adoption (net2phone's Latin American growth is an example) [11].
• AI features — call transcription, virtual agents, real-time assistance — are lifting revenue per seat and are the current battleground.
• IoT connectivity for vehicles, industrial assets, healthcare devices, and remote sensors, and healthcare/public-safety demand for reliable, secure, redundant messaging (e.g., Spok) [12].

On the space-ground side:

• The low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite boom. Mega-constellations (broadband and Earth-observation) mean thousands of fast-moving satellites, each needing frequent telemetry, tracking, and command (TT&C) contacts and data downlinks — which requires many, globally spread ground antennas [25][26].
• Cloud-integrated, on-demand ground networks let satellite operators rent antenna time instead of building it. Forecasters expect the broader satellite-ground-station market to roughly double from about $41 billion (2025) to $83 billion (2030) (~15% annually), with the GSaaS slice growing faster (~19% annually) off a smaller base [25][26]. Those figures span equipment and satellite operators too, so they're a demand backdrop, not the size of 517810.
• D2D satellite coverage for rural, emergency, maritime, aviation, and remote users, and defense and space-domain-awareness spending, underpin the government tracking/telemetry/radar demand.

A structural dependency to watch: much of this code ultimately rides on downstream broadband, telecom, and space capital spending — when carriers and satellite operators invest, the resellers and ground-service providers eat well.

7. Regulation

Broadly, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulates nonfederal spectrum use while the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) manages federal spectrum [34].

Voice/messaging (chiefly the FCC). For interconnected VoIP — internet calling that connects to the public telephone network — obligations can include:

• Enhanced 911 (E911) location-capable emergency calling, with customer acknowledgment of its limits [28].
• Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) privacy rules; number portability; and outage reporting and customer-data security.
• Contributions to the Universal Service Fund (USF) and the FCC Form 499 telecom worksheet [28].
• STIR/SHAKEN caller-ID authentication (to fight spoofing/robocalls) plus Robocall Mitigation Database filings; the FCC tightened obligations with a September 2025 compliance deadline for a broader set of providers [28].
• CALEA (lawful-intercept) and a thicket of telecom taxes. This regulatory/tax overhead is a real drag on the otherwise software-like margins in Model A.

Satellite-ground and space.

• FCC Part 25 earth-station licensing. Operating an antenna that transmits to satellites requires an FCC license (via Form 312), typically valid 15 years; large teleport/gateway antennas are licensed individually, while fleets of small user terminals can get blanket licenses [29].
• Spectrum coordination and interference rules govern who transmits where; satellite operators also face international coordination and orbital-debris requirements [31][32]. The FCC's Supplemental Coverage from Space (SCS) framework lets certain satellite operators pair with terrestrial licensees to extend coverage, with emergency-communications requirements [31].
• Export controls. Ground control stations that perform TT&C or use military cryptography fall under ITAR Category XV (International Traffic in Arms Regulations, State Department) or the Commerce Department's EAR 9x515 (Export Administration Regulations) rules; a 2024 rulemaking eased some space export controls but the compliance load remains material [30].
• Launch and foreign-investment overlays. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) licenses commercial launch/reentry and launch sites [33]; foreign investment in sensitive U.S. communications businesses can trigger Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) review [35]; and government procurement is material, with the DoD routing much commercial satellite-communications buying through its dedicated office [36].

8. Competitive dynamics and consolidation

Voice/messaging is brutally competitive and commoditizing. Standalone cloud-phone providers are squeezed between Microsoft Teams Phone and Zoom bundling calling into products customers already buy, and against each other on price. That pressure has (a) compressed valuations for pure-play unified-communications names (8x8's market value is a fraction of its revenue) and (b) driven consolidation. The current escape route is AI-differentiated voice (agents, automation); Bandwidth's enterprise/API and AI-voice pivot is the cohort's recent re-rating story [9].

The ground segment is consolidating around scale and cloud. KSAT's global antenna footprint gives it a lead [24]; hyperscalers (AWS, Azure) are entering via partnerships and their own networks; and a cluster of GSaaS startups is racing to add sites. Some satellite operators vertically integrate by building captive ground networks, which can pull demand away from third-party providers.

Scale advantages across the code come from larger customer/partner channels, better network reliability and geographic coverage, lower per-user carrier and infrastructure cost, proprietary software/spectrum/terminals, regulatory approvals and government certifications, and more data for AI and network optimization.

Recent deals (reported): Ericsson's $6.2 billion Vonage purchase (2022) [19]; 8x8's earlier absorption of Fuze; Ooma's acquisitions of FluentStream and Phone.com (late 2025) [7]; 26North's acquisition of Intermedia (2026) [20]; KORE's announced take-private by Searchlight and Abry [21]; Zayo's agreement to buy Crown Castle's fiber-solutions business [22]; and, per an announcement by the parties, Rocket Lab agreeing to acquire Iridium in a transaction reported to close around 2027 [23]. Continued consolidation is likely wherever customer relationships, channel partners, spectrum, network density, or recurring revenue are worth more together than apart — though vertical integration can raise leverage and execution risk as well as improve economics.

Concentration (CR4 ~60%, HHI ~1,232) confirms a moderately concentrated market: a few large operators on the dollars, a long tail of tiny resellers on the firm count [2].

9. Risks

• Commoditization and big-tech bundling (voice side). Teams and Zoom can erode standalone VoIP pricing and growth; churn and thin profitability are chronic.
• Regulatory and tax burden. E911, USF, STIR/SHAKEN, CALEA, and telecom taxes raise cost and compliance risk; a reclassification can move a business's obligations overnight [28].
• Legacy decline. Dial-up, paging, and traditional voice can shrink faster than price increases offset lost users.
• Hyperscaler competition and capital intensity (ground side). Competing with Amazon/Microsoft-scale ground networks is hard; antennas, satellites, terminals, and spectrum require large, lumpy investment, and demand concentrates in a few big constellation customers.
• Customer and geopolitical concentration. Government-heavy RF work depends on defense/NASA/NOAA budgets; export-control (ITAR/EAR) missteps or CFIUS findings can shut down cross-border operations [30][35].
• Third-party dependency and reliability. Cloud providers lean on carriers, data centers, termination partners, and emergency-service providers; an outage, breach, routing failure, or failed emergency call damages both finances and reputation.
• Technology obsolescence. Dial-up already collapsed; today's advantage (a site, a codec, an AI feature) can be leapfrogged.
• Private-equity leverage and integration. Buyouts and roll-ups can create value, but debt and integration problems can overwhelm operating gains.
• Analytical opacity. As a residual code with heavy classification leakage and understated nonemployer/government activity, the sector is genuinely hard to size and benchmark [1][4].

10. How to invest and the outlook

Public-market routes.

• Direct-but-small: the cloud-phone/messaging cohort — Bandwidth (BAND), 8x8 (EGHT), Ooma (OOMA), Crexendo (CXDO), IDT (IDT) for net2phone, and Spok (SPOK) for clinical messaging [7][8][9][10][11][12]. Expect volatility, competitive pressure, and dispersion (Bandwidth has re-rated up on AI voice while 8x8 has de-rated) [8][9].
• The theme at scale (adjacent codes): RingCentral (RNG), Zoom, and Twilio for cloud communications [13]; Amazon and Microsoft for GSaaS (immaterial to their totals); and satellite operators Iridium (IRDM), Globalstar (GSAT), Viasat (VSAT), EchoStar (SATS), and AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) for the space-communications theme — each only partial and, for the satellite names, a different (517410) code [14][15][16][17][18].

Private-market routes. This is where the satellite-ground growth actually is: venture and private-equity stakes in GSaaS and teleport operators (KSAT, ATLAS Space Operations, RBC Signals, Leaf Space and peers) [24], cloud-communications buyouts and roll-ups (Intermedia, KORE) [20][21], and government-contract vehicles serving DoD/NASA/NOAA. For an investor who believes the LEO boom, private ground infrastructure is the more direct — if less liquid — bet than any listed 517810 stock.

What to underwrite. Start from segment exposure, not the NAICS label. On the voice side, favor growing recurring revenue, low churn, rising ARPU, durable contracts, strong uptime, manageable carrier dependence, and FCF after maintenance capex. On the space/satellite side, scrutinize capacity utilization, backlog, customer concentration, spectrum rights, capex cadence, and realistic exit comparables. Treat communications platforms and satellite companies as different risk buckets even when they serve similar customers.

Outlook. 517810 is best viewed as a two-speed industry. On the voice side, the swing factor is whether AI features can lift revenue per seat faster than Teams/Zoom bundling erodes price — that governs the cohort's margins and multiples — on a mature base likely to grow at a low-to-mid single-digit clip [6]. Paging and dial-up remain cash-generative niches in places but face long-term erosion. The satellite-ground niche can grow far faster off a small base [25][26], alongside the highest launch, spectrum, capital, and execution risk — its pace set by LEO launches and by whether operators rent antenna time (good for GSaaS providers) or build their own (bad for them). Across the board, value will accrue unevenly, and much of it to companies and private owners that federal statistics never fully capture in this code.

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