Wireless
UK companies organised by the CorpSignals industry, segment, and subsegment taxonomy.
Company snapshot
What this shows: the size and current activity of this classification, plus recent formations, company age, revenue coverage, and trade participation.
All companies
6288
Active companies
4487
Formed in latest 12 months
436
Median active-company age
7.5 years
Revenue known
100
Importers
287
Exporters
183
Top values shown in the chart
| Category | Companies |
|---|---|
| All companies | 6,288 |
| Active companies | 4,487 |
| Formed in latest 12 months | 436 |
| Importers | 287 |
| Exporters | 183 |
Revenue coverage among active companies: 100 known, 4387 unknown (2.2%).
Company formations
What this shows: monthly incorporations and dissolutions from 1 January 2024, including companies of every current status.
Latest ten months shown in the chart
| Month | Formed | Dissolved |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-11 | 33 | 45 |
| 2025-12 | 34 | 62 |
| 2026-01 | 45 | 53 |
| 2026-02 | 38 | 52 |
| 2026-03 | 37 | 62 |
| 2026-04 | 34 | 55 |
| 2026-05 | 32 | 41 |
| 2026-06 | 33 | 42 |
| 2026-07 | 29 | 81 |
| 2026-08 | 20 | 33 |
Window: 2024-01 to 2026-08.
Company status
What this shows: all current Companies House status values. Companies House Active records with dormant accounts are shown as Dormant; the remaining Companies House Active records are shown as Active. Blank and missing values are combined as Unknown.
Top values shown in the chart
| Status | Companies |
|---|---|
| Active | 3,889 |
| Dissolved | 1,702 |
| Dormant | 598 |
| Liquidation | 92 |
| In Administration | 5 |
| Insolvency Proceedings | 1 |
| Voluntary Arrangement | 1 |
Active companies by UK region
What this shows: active companies with a known ITL2 region. The UK map falls back to a bar chart if map data cannot be loaded.
Top values shown in the chart
| ITL2 region | Companies |
|---|---|
| Inner London - West | 500 |
| Inner London - East | 385 |
| Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire | 329 |
| Hampshire and Isle of Wight | 236 |
| Outer London - West and North West | 192 |
| Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | 182 |
| Surrey, East and West Sussex | 176 |
| Greater Manchester | 154 |
| West Midlands | 145 |
| Outer London - East and North East | 114 |
Geography coverage: 4456 known, 31 unknown (99.3%).
Revenue ranges
What this shows: active companies grouped into the platform’s ordered estimated-revenue bands.
Top values shown in the chart
| Revenue range | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0-1m | 2,606 |
| 1m-15m | 524 |
| 15m-54m | 43 |
| 54m+ | 86 |
Revenue-range coverage: 3259 known, 1228 unknown (72.6%).
Company size and employees
What this shows: active companies by published size category and by reported employee count.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company size | Companies |
|---|---|
| Micro | 1,595 |
| Small | 1,386 |
| Medium | 9 |
| Large | 121 |
| Holding | 30 |
| Dormant | 598 |
Company-size coverage: 3739 known, 748 unknown (83.3%).
Top values shown in the chart
| Employees | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0 | 830 |
| 1–9 | 1,938 |
| 10–49 | 209 |
| 50–249 | 32 |
| 250+ | 4 |
Employee coverage: 3013 known, 1474 unknown (67.1%).
Active-company age
What this shows: how long currently active companies have been incorporated.
Top values shown in the chart
| Age band | Companies |
|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 426 |
| 1–3 years | 719 |
| 3–5 years | 467 |
| 5–10 years | 1,212 |
| 10–20 years | 1,042 |
| 20+ years | 621 |
Incorporation-date coverage: 4487 known, 0 unknown (100.0%).
Classification breakdown
What this shows: active companies across the next taxonomy level; direct assignments are labelled separately. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
Top values shown in the chart
| Classification | Companies |
|---|---|
| Directly assigned to this segment | 4,487 |
International trade
What this shows: active-company participation in imports and exports, followed by the ten HS2 categories involving the most distinct companies.
Top values shown in the chart
| Trade participation | Companies |
|---|---|
| Importer only | 137 |
| Exporter only | 33 |
| Both | 150 |
| Neither | 4,167 |
Top imports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 260 | £101,359,928,961 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 119 | £6,020,538,049 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 87 | £30,773,206,350 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 35 | £1,474,828,246 | 2016-03-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 28 | £1,582,267,670 | 2016-03-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams) | 28 | £2,938,252,664 | 2016-09-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 95 — Toys, games, and sports equipment | 22 | £597,859,602 | 2016-02-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 21 | £2,446,622,279 | 2016-11-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 83 — Miscellaneous metal items | 17 | £319,213,804 | 2016-03-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 76 — Aluminum and aluminum products | 15 | £525,504,099 | 2019-12-01 – 2026-03-01 |
Top exports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 162 | £31,221,503,635 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 77 | £5,610,231,062 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 69 | £9,622,238,611 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 26 | £397,870,360 | 2016-02-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams) | 20 | £776,410,414 | 2016-07-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 16 | £585,910,734 | 2016-02-01 – 2026-04-01 |
| 88 — Aircraft, spacecraft, and their parts | 16 | £4,780,333,895 | 2016-05-01 – 2026-01-01 |
| 95 — Toys, games, and sports equipment | 14 | £171,374,186 | 2016-07-01 – 2026-03-01 |
| 83 — Miscellaneous metal items | 11 | £54,846,057 | 2016-05-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 9 | £821,744,540 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
Business and digital traits
What this shows: active companies identified with selected ownership, business-model, and online-presence traits.
Values shown in the chart with data coverage
| Trait | Companies | Known | Unknown | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family business | 294 | 3,681 | 806 | 82.0% |
| Holding company | 5 | 3,681 | 806 | 82.0% |
| Solo founder | 2,000 | 3,681 | 806 | 82.0% |
| Ecommerce | 22 | 209 | 4,278 | 4.7% |
| Website | 271 | 275 | 4,212 | 6.1% |
| 242 | 275 | 4,212 | 6.1% |
Leading active companies
What this shows: the ten active companies with the highest non-missing revenue, with company number used as the deterministic tie-breaker.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company | Revenue |
|---|---|
| Whp Telecoms Limited | £183,301,648 |
| Babble Cloud Limited | £85,284,000 |
| Ridown Capital Limited | £57,296,965 |
| Capital City Service Limited | £55,450,000 |
| Phonesmart Limited | £45,240,689 |
| Cpec Tech Ltd | £40,523,274 |
| Purdicom Limited | £38,372,273 |
| Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions Uk Ltd | £31,909,437 |
| Midland Communications Distribution Limited | £29,013,389 |
| Connect44 Ltd | £27,970,835 |
Revenue coverage: 100 known, 4387 unknown (2.2%).
Related classifications
What this shows: sibling classifications ranked by distinct active companies, excluding the current node. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
SIC classification
SIC 61200 — Wireless telecommunications activities
Includes
operating, maintaining or providing access to facilities for the transmission of voice, data, text, sound, and video using a wireless telecommunications infrastructure, maintaining and operating paging as well as cellular and other wireless telecommunications networks, purchasing access and network capacity from owners and operators of networks and providing wireless telecommunications services (except satellite) using this capacity to businesses and households, provision of Internet access by the operator of the wireless infrastructure
Excludes
telecommunications resellers, see ##61.90