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About GeoTel

GeoTel Communications, Inc. is the leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure data in a geographic information system and other platforms. GeoTel's unique business strategy implements and converges the mapping of telecommunications fiber and other telecommunications infrastructure with GIS technologies.  These two items integrated into one digital data set gives leverage and insight into the competitive metropolitan fiber optic landscape across America.

The data sets listed below are GeoTel's current product offering of telecommunications infrastructure data.  All data sets are continually updated with additional markets added semi-annually. See map for CBSA coverage. 

  • Access to several hundred Carrier Fiber Networks 
  • Million + miles of fiber routes 
  • Metro Networks covering thousands of U.S. Cities  
  • Access to 100,000+ Data Centers and Fiber Lit Buildings 
  • Know the fiber Proximity to wireless/cell sites & Towers 
  • 80,000+ Tower and Rooftop sites
  • Central office (CO) locations  
  • Wire Center Boundaries 
  • Area Code Boundaries 
  • LATA Boundaries 
  • Bing Aerial Imagery and Points of Interests
  • Opportunity to subscribe to many other types of data outside of telecom but is useful when overlaid such as commercial building data or digital earth terrain models (line of sight)

The below listed industries can use telecommunications infrastructure data to drive insightful business decisions. GeoTel's sophisticated fiber data sets let users within a GIS environment easily visualize a carriers’ entire metro fiber network, carrier assets, current areas of fiber market penetration and competitive threats. With infrastructure data, organizations outside the communications industry can determine where to locate new buildings, the potential for economic development in a specific area and the extent of communications services currently available in a particular market area.

  • Telecommunications
  • Real Estate
  • Economic development
  • Urban planning industries
  • Consulting and business intelligence firms
  • Government

All of GeoTel's data sets are geo-referenced and can be layered on digital street maps, digital elevation models, aerial photography and 3D imagery.

"GeoTel's data in combination with the appropriate GIS software or GeoTel's online subscription based web service, carriers and enterprises finally have a complete solution that empowers them to visualize and analyze their networks in a broader context that combines both competitive insights and customer demographics." said David L. Drazen, CEO, GeoTel.