Updated May 2026 · Senate LDA filings
Telecommunications, Lobbying Spending
10 organizations · $223.9M total spend
Telecommunications carries a mid-tier disclosed federal lobbying footprint, with 10 tracked organizations reporting $223.9M in cumulative spend across the years tracked. This range is typical of sectors with selective federal engagement — major bills and rulemakings draw spending spikes, but quarter-to-quarter activity is steadier than in the heaviest industries.
What These Numbers Mean
Average disclosed spend per organization in Telecommunications is $22.4M, indicating a mix of large filers and steady mid-tier programs. Per-firm averages in this range are typical of mature industries with multiple long-running corporate government-affairs operations.
Within Telecommunications, the disclosed-spend leader is Comcast Corporation at $62.8M, narrowly ahead of AT&T Inc at $57.3M. Sector leadership in this industry has historically rotated as major bills and rulemakings move through Congress.
Every figure on this page is drawn from filings submitted to the Senate Office of Public Records under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995. Filings are quarterly and public domain. The campaign-finance research project at OpenSecrets uses the same Senate LDA filings as one input and frequently provides additional reporting on individual sector filers.
Top Policy Issues
Top-issue coverage for Telecommunications is unusually broad — at least 10 distinct issue areas appear in the sector's aggregated filings, signalling that filers in this industry engage Congress on a wide regulatory front rather than a single defining policy.
Top Spenders in Telecommunications
How to Read This Page
Industry pages aggregate all LobbySpend-tracked filers whose primary business sits in the same sector. The total-spend number is the sum of disclosed dollars across every quarterly LDA filing for those filers in the years tracked, deduplicated against amendments. The per-organization average is the simple mean and is sensitive to the presence of one or two megaspenders — for sectors with extreme top-heaviness, the median is typically a more useful summary, which the underlying data supports if you click through to the individual filer pages.
The top-issues breakdown reflects filer-allocated dollars on each filing — registrants are required to report which general issue areas they lobbied on and, where applicable, how spend was allocated. Issue dollars should be read as a directional signal of where attention is concentrated rather than as audited line items. For the full Influence Score formula and known limitations of LDA disclosures, see the methodology page.
Telecommunications organizations have collectively disclosed $223.9M in federal lobbying across 10 tracked filers, drawn from Senate LDA quarterly disclosure filings.
this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. federal lobbying disclosure dataset. The detail above comes directly from the Senate Lobbying Disclosure Office LD-2 filings; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. lobbying activity.
Every number on this page links back to the Senate Lobbying Disclosure Office LD-2 filings; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. lobbying activity with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.