List of mobile network operators
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For a more comprehensive list of mobile phone operators, see Mobile country codes .
Terrestrial
This is a list of the world's thirty largest terrestrial mobile phone network operators measured by number of subscriptions.
Rank | Company | Main markets | Technology |
Total
subscriptions (in millions ) |
Ownership
(100% ownership unless stated otherwise) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
China:
China Mobile
Communications Corporation |
List
|
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
|
List
|
436.31
(May 2023) |
|
4 | China: China Telecom Corp., Ltd |
List
|
390.48
[3]
(OCtober 2022) |
China Telecommunications Corporation (State Owned) (70.89%) | |
5 | China China Unicom Limited |
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
|
289.11
[6]
(December 2022) |
Public stock (60.02%)
Government Employees Pension Fund (25.33%) M1 (10.05%) |
|
8 | Spain: Telefónica S.A. |
277.52
[7]
(May 2023) |
|||
9 | United Kingdom: Vodafone Group plc |
List
|
274.975
[8]
(May 2023) |
||
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 | Netherlands VEON Ltd. |
List
|
214.4
[11]
(2021) |
Letterone Investment Holdings S.A.
(47.9%)
Public stock (43.8%) Stichting Administratiekantoor Mobile Telecommunications Investor (8.3%) |
|
13 | Germany: Deutsche Telekom AG |
List
|
212.04
[12]
(September 2022) |
Free float
(68.1%)
Federal Republic of Germany (31.9%) |
|
14 | USA: AT&T Inc. |
List
|
210.68
[13]
(September 2022) |
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%) [14] |
|
15 | Indonesia PT Telekomunikasi Selular ( Telkomsel ) |
List
|
176
[15]
(2021) |
Telkom Indonesia
(65%)
Singtel (35%) |
|
16 | Norway Telenor ASA |
172
[16]
(2021) |
Government of Norway
(53.97%)
Public stock (41.74%) The Government Pension Fund of Norway (4.79%) |
||
17 | Malaysia: Axiata Group Berhad |
163
[17]
[18]
(2021) |
Public stock (54.91%)
Government of Malaysia (45.09%) |
||
18 |
UAE:
Emirates Telecommunication
Group Company PJSC ( Etisalat ) |
159
[19]
(2021) |
Emirates Investment Authority
(60.03%)
Public stock (39.97%) |
||
19 | South Africa Vodacom |
List
|
List
|
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%) |
20 | Qatar Ooredoo QSC |
List
|
121
[21]
(2021) |
Government of Qatar | |
21 | USA: Verizon Wireless |
List
|
120.85
[22]
(April 2021) |
Verizon Communications | |
22 | Vietnam: Viettel Group |
110.0
[23]
(December 2018) |
Government of Vietnam | ||
23 | India: BSNL Mobile |
106.03
[27]
(March 2023) [Note 2] [24] |
Government of India | ||
24 | HKG: CK Hutchison Holdings - Telecom Division |
List
|
100.29 [28] (2021) | CK Hutchison Holdings | |
25 | Iran: MCI Hamrahe Aval |
92.46
[29]
(April 2020) |
TCI
(94.09%)
Sukuk (5.91%) |
||
26 | Russia: Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) |
83.85
[30]
(Q3 2021) |
Sistema (50.8%) | ||
27 | Japan: NTT Docomo Inc. |
82.63
[31]
(May 2021) |
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone | ||
28 | Philippines: Globe Telecom Inc. |
79.8
[32]
(May 2021) |
Asiacom (50.81%)
Singtel (20.08%)
Public stock (15.65%)
|
||
29 | Philippines PLDT Inc. |
List
|
71.8
[33]
(May 2021) |
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 |
70.5
[34]
(Q1 2021) |
AF Telecom Holding LLC (56.32%)
USM Telecom LLC (43.68%) |
Satellite based
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) [35] | |
2 | Globalstar | Proprietary CDMA | 0.638 (March 2015) [36] | |
3 | Thuraya | Proprietary FDMA / GSM | 0.260 (December 2007) [37] | Etisalat (28%) |
4 | Inmarsat | Proprietary GSM | 0.254 (September 2009) [38] | |
5 | ACeS | Dual-mode Satellite / GSM | 0.020 (December 2007) |
By region
See also
- 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
- Mobile country code (List of MCC/MNC assigned to mobile networks)
Footnotes
References
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "January–March 2023 Results" . 11 May 2023.
- ↑ "Full Year Results" . Vodafone Group plc . 16 May 2023.
- ↑ "Non-controlling equity interest: Iraq" . Orange . Archived from the original on 25 February 2020.
- ↑ "H1 2022 Presentation" (PDF) . 28 July 2022.
- ↑ "Report 3Q 2020" (PDF) . Veon. 29 October 2020.
- ↑ "1Q 2022 Report" . 13 May 2022. p. 2.
- ↑ "Quarterly Earnings 3Q 2022" (PDF) . 30 September 2022.
- ↑ "AT&T INC. Ownership summary| NASDAQ" . www.nasdaq.com . Retrieved 27 May 2019 .
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↑
"Telkom Indonesia Q1 2021 financial results"
(PDF)
. June 2021. p.
12.
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- ↑ "Axiata 4th Quarter 2019 Financials" (PDF) .
- ↑ "Axiata 4Q19 Data Financials" .
- ↑ "Etisalat 2Q Report 2020" (PDF) . p. 4 . Retrieved 21 July 2020 .
- ↑ hamsite, digital marketing. "agency HAMSITE" . digital marketing agency HAMSITE .
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↑
"Q1 2021 Results"
(PDF)
. Ooredoo. April 2021. p.
12.
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↑
"Verizon Q1 2021"
.
www.verizon.com
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1 July
2021
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: CS1 maint: url-status ( link ) - ↑ "Viettel to become a digital service provider this year" . Viettel Group. 14 December 2019.
- 1 2 "MTNL to be act as BSNL subsidiary Till Merger Complete" . The Hindu . 29 June 2019.
- ↑ "Government approves Revival package for BSNL, MTNL" . 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 .
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↑
"Q1 2021 Results"
(PDF)
. MTS. 18 May 2021. p.
2.
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"NTT FY2020"
(PDF)
. 12 May 2021.
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"Report 1Q 2021"
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. 7 May 2021. p.
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"Financial highlights 1Q 2021"
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. 6 May 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status ( link ) - ↑ "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.
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