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List of mobile network operators 
Summary
For a more comprehensive list of mobile phone operators, see Mobile country codes.
Terrestrial edit
This is a list of the world's thirty largest terrestrial mobile phone network operators measured by number of subscriptions.
| Rank | Country | Company | Main markets | Technology | Total subscriptions (in millions) |
Ownership (100% ownership unless stated otherwise) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | China Mobile Communications Corporation |
974.04[1] (September 2022) |
Government of the People's Republic of China (74.25%) Public stock (25.75%) | ||
| 2 | India | Bharti Airtel Limited | List
|
496.91[2] (June 2022) |
Bharti Enterprises (66.57%) Singtel (32.15%) Google (1.28%) | |
| 3 | India | Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited | List
|
486.31 (May 2023) |
Jio Platforms Meta | |
| 4 | China | China Telecom Corp., Ltd | List
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List |
390.48[3] (October 2022) |
China Telecommunications Corporation (State Owned) (70.89%) |
| 5 | China | China Unicom Limited | List
|
320.00[4] (June 2022) |
China Unicom Limited (40.92%) China Netcom Group (29.49%) Telefónica (0.6%) | |
| 6 | Mexico | América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V | List
|
307.85[5] (September 2022) |
Helu Slim (36.50%) Carlos Slim (6.84%) Public stock (56.66%) | |
| 7 | South Africa | MTN Group Limited | List
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List
|
289.11[6] (December 2022) |
Public stock (60.02%) Government Employees Pension Fund (25.33%) M1 (10.05%) |
| 8 | United Kingdom | Vodafone Group plc | List
|
286.016[7] (February 2024) |
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| 9 | Spain | Telefónica S.A. | 277.52[8] (May 2023) |
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| 10 | France | Orange S.A. | List
|
241.9[10] ( December 2022) |
Public stock (77%) Government of France (23%) | |
| 11 | India | Vodafone Idea Ltd | 230.94 (May 2023) |
Government of India (32.09%) Vodafone Group Plc (31.27%) Aditya Birla Group (17.49%) Private equity (15.97%) American Tower Corporation (3.18%) | ||
| 12 | USA | AT&T Inc. | List
|
217.4[11] (January 2023) |
Institutional Shares (59.28%) Vanguard Group Inc (14.12%) Blackrock Inc (11.49%) State Street Corp (7.53%) Newport Trust Co (5.07%) Geode Captital Management, LLC (2.52%)[12] | |
| 13 | Germany | Deutsche Telekom AG | List
|
212.04[13] (September 2022) |
Free float (68.1%) Federal Republic of Germany (31.9%) | |
| 14 | Indonesia | PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel) | List
|
176[14] (2021) |
Telkom Indonesia (65%) Singtel (35%) | |
| 15 | Norway | Telenor ASA | List
|
172[15] (2021) |
Government of Norway (53.97%) Public stock (41.74%) The Government Pension Fund of Norway (4.79%) | |
| 16 | Malaysia | Axiata Group Berhad | List
|
163[16][17] (2021) |
Public stock (54.91%) Government of Malaysia (45.09%) | |
| 17 | UAE | Emirates Telecommunication Group Company PJSC (Etisalat) |
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159[18] (2021) |
Emirates Investment Authority (60.03%) Public stock (39.97%) | |
| 18 | Netherlands | VEON Ltd. | List
|
157 (2022) |
Letterone Investment Holdings S.A. (47.9%) Public stock (43.8%) Stichting Administratiekantoor Mobile Telecommunications Investor (8.3%) | |
| 19 | USA | Verizon Communications | 143.3[19] (January 2023) |
Verizon Communications | ||
| 20 | South Africa | Vodacom | List
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132.78[20] (September 2022) | Vodafone Group Plc (65.1%) Institutional Investors (15.76%) Government of South Africa (13.54%) YeboYethu (6.23%) Retail positions (2.96%) Wheatfield Investments(0.84%) Others(0.17%) |
| 21 | Qatar | Ooredoo QSC | List
|
121[21] (2021) |
Government of Qatar | |
| 22 | Vietnam | Viettel Group | 110.0[22] (December 2018) |
Government of Vietnam | ||
| 23 | India | BSNL Mobile | 106.03[26] (March 2023)[Note 2][23] |
Government of India | ||
| 24 | HKG | CK Hutchison Holdings – Telecom Division | List
|
100.29[27](2021) | CK Hutchison Holdings | |
| 25 | Iran | MTN Irancell | List
|
92.46[28] (April 2020) |
TCI (94.09%) Sukuk (5.91%) | |
| 26 | Russia | Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) | List
|
83.85[29] (Q3 2021) |
Sistema (50.8%) | |
| 27 | Japan | NTT Docomo Inc. | List
|
82.63[30] (May 2021) |
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone | |
| 28 | Philippines | Globe Telecom Inc. | List
|
53.73[31] (Aug 2023) |
Asiacom (50.81%) Singtel (20.08%) Public stock (15.65%) | |
| 29 | Philippines | PLDT Inc. | List
|
52.5[32] (Aug 2023) |
Public (41.55%) NTT Docomo (14.5%) Philippine Telecommunications Investment Corp. (12.05%) Metro Pacific Resources, Inc. (9.98%) NTT Communications Corp (5.85%) First Pacific (3.54%) | |
| 30 | Russia | MegaFon | List
|
70.5[33] (Q1 2021) |
AF Telecom Holding LLC (56.32%) USM Telecom LLC (43.68%) |
Satellite based edit
This is a list of the world's five largest satellite phone network operators measured by number of subscribers.
| Rank | Operator | Technology | Subscribers (in millions) |
Ownership |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iridium | Proprietary TDMA | 0.824 (June 2016)[34] | |
| 2 | Globalstar | Proprietary CDMA | 0.638 (March 2015)[35] | |
| 3 | Thuraya | Proprietary FDMA/GSM | 0.260 (December 2007)[36] | Etisalat (28%) |
| 4 | Inmarsat | Proprietary GSM | 0.254 (September 2009)[37] | |
| 5 | ACeS | Dual-mode Satellite/GSM | 0.020 (December 2007) |
By region edit
See also edit
- Comparison of mobile phone standards
- List of sovereign states by number of broadband Internet subscriptions
- List of countries by number of Internet users
- List of countries by number of telephone lines in use
- List of countries by smartphone penetration
- List of multiple-system operators
- List of telephone operating companies
Footnotes edit
References edit
- ^ "Monthly Customer Data". China Mobile. 30 September 2020.
- ^ "Quarterly Highlights Report Bharti Airtel" (PDF). 30 June 2022.
- ^ "China Telecom Corporation". China Telecom. 30 September 2022.
- ^ "2022 Interim Report" (PDF). China Unicom. 30 June 2022.
- ^ "3Q 2022 Reports" (PDF). América Móvil. 30 September 2022.
- ^ "Full Year Results 22". MTN Group. 30 December 2022.
- ^ "Full Year Results". Vodafone Group plc. 5 February 2024.
- ^ "January–March 2023 Results". 11 May 2023.
- ^ "Non-controlling equity interest: Iraq". Orange. Archived from the original on 25 February 2020.
- ^ "H1 2022 Presentation" (PDF). 28 July 2022.
- ^ "AT&T Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results". about.att.com. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ "AT&T INC. Ownership summary| NASDAQ". nasdaq.com. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
- ^ "1Q 2022 Report". 13 May 2022. p. 2.
- ^ "Telkom Indonesia Q1 2021 financial results" (PDF). June 2021. p. 12.
- ^ "3Q 2020 Telenor ASA Group Report" (PDF). 21 October 2020. p. 1.
- ^ "Axiata 4th Quarter 2019 Financials" (PDF).
- ^ "Axiata 4Q19 Data Financials".
- ^ "Etisalat 2Q Report 2020" (PDF). p. 4. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
- ^ "Strong wireless service revenue growth highlights Verizon's 4Q and 2022 results". verizon.com. 24 January 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ hamsite, digital marketing. "آژانس دیجیتال مارکتینگ". digital marketing agency HAMSITE.
- ^ "Q1 2021 Results" (PDF). Ooredoo. April 2021. p. 12.
- ^ "Viettel to become a digital service provider this year". Viettel Group. 14 December 2019.
- ^ a b "MTNL to be act as BSNL subsidiary Till Merger Complete". The Hindu. 29 June 2019.
- ^ "Government approves Revival package for BSNL, MTNL". The Economic Times. 23 October 2019.
- ^ "BSNL, MTNL to be merged, along with special package". India Today. 23 October 2019.
- ^ "TRAI subscription data". April 2022.
- ^ "Customer base, 2019" (PDF). CK Hutchison Holdings Limited. 19 March 2020.
- ^ سهم بازار اپراتورهای همراه در سه ماهه نخست سال جاری [Mobile operators' market share in the first quarter of this year]. rond.ir (in Persian). Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ "Q1 2021 Results" (PDF). MTS. 18 May 2021. p. 2.
- ^ "NTT FY2020" (PDF). 12 May 2021.
- ^ "Report 1Q 2021" (PDF). 7 May 2021. p. 4.
- ^ "Financial highlights 1Q 2021" (PDF). 6 May 2021.
- ^ "KPI Q1 2020". MegaFon. 28 May 2020.
- ^ "Iridium Q2 2016 Results" (PDF). 30 June 2016.
- ^ "Globestar Announces Q1 2015 Results". Globalstar.com. 31 March 2015.
- ^ "Thuraya Launches SMS Info Service with CNN" (Press release). Thuraya. 27 November 2007. Archived from the original on 3 January 2010.
- ^ "INMARSAT HOLDINGS LIMITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL RESULTS For the three and nine months ended 30 September 2009 (unaudited)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 November 2012.
External links edit
- List of all mobile network operators in the World divided by country
For a more comprehensive list of mobile phone operators, see Mobile country codes.