List of mobile network operators

This is a list of Major Mobile Phone Network Operators. For a more comprehensive list of mobile phone operators, see Mobile Network Code.

Terrestrial

These are the World's 30 Largest Mobile Network Operators by Number of Subscribers (and by proportionate subscribers, if the company has holdings in other operators).

Rank Company Main Markets Technology Proportionate
subscribers
(in millions)		 Total
subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 China Mobile 627.63[1]
(August 2011)		 627.63[2]
(August 2011)		 Government of the PRC (74.25%)
Free Float (25.75%)
2 Vodafone 361.42[3]
(June 2011)		 381.72[4]
(June 2011)
3 América Móvil 236
(June 2011)[5]		 236
(June 2011)[6]
4 Movistar O2 227.32
(June 2011)[7]		 227.32
(June 2011)[8]		 Telefónica
5 Airtel 227.04[9]
(September 2011)		 227.04
(September 2011)[10]		 Bharti (64.76%)
SingTel (30.5%)
Vodafone (4.4%)
6 Orange 140[11]
(December 2009)		 217.3
(June 2011)[12]		 France Télécom
7 Telenor 203[13]
(December 2010)		 Including VimpelCom before merging with Wind
8 Beeline 193[14]
(July 2011)		 Alfa Group (31%)
Naguib Sawiris (30,6%)
Telenor (25,01%)[15]
9 SingTel 146.0[16]
(Aug 2011)		 146[17]
(August 2011)		 Temasek Holdings (54%)
10 Axiata Group Berhad 159.7[18]
(December 2010)
11 China Unicom China (China Unicom) 169.7[19]
(January 2011)		 China Unicom (BVI) Limited (state-owned) (40.92%)
China Netcom Group (BVI) Limited (state-owned) (29.49%)
Telefonica (9.7%)
12 / TeliaSonera 160[20]
(December 2010)		 37,3% Sweden, 13,7% Finland[21]
13 Saudi Telecom Company (STC) > 100[22]
(March 2010)		 139[22]
(December 2010)
14 MTN Group 137.47[23]
(September 2010)
15 Etisalat >135[24]
(February 2010)
16 Reliance Communications 144.78[25]
(July 2011)		 Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
17 T-Mobile 128.00[26]
(June 2011)		 Deutsche Telekom
18 Verizon Wireless USA 106.3[27]
(Aug 2011)		 Verizon Communications (55%)
Vodafone (45%)
19 MTS 103.35[28]
(31 December 2010)		 Sistema
20 AT&T Mobility 100.7[29]
(September 2011)		 AT&T Inc.
21 China Telecom China 94.1[30]
(January 2011)
22 Telkomsel Indonesia (Telkomsel) >100[31]
(April 2011)		 Telkom Indonesia (65%)
SingTel (35%)
23 Idea Cellular India 96.11[25]
(July 2011)		 Aditya Birla Group (49.05%)
Axiata Group Berhad (19.1%)
Providence Equity (10.6%)
24 BSNL India 95.14[25]
(July 2011)		 Government of India
25 Tata Teleservices India 88.31[25]
(July 2011)		 Tata Group (>50%)
Temasek (9%)
Sivasankaran (8%)
26 Telecom Italia / TIM 71.50[32]
(September 2009)		 Telefonica (24.5%)
27 Maxis Communications 63.71[33][34]
(December 2010)		 Ananda Krishnan (75%)
Saudi Telecom Company (25%)
28 Turkcell 61.7[35]
(June 2011)
29 Qtel 33.60[36]
(December 2009)		 82.4[36]
(December 2009)

Satellite based

These are the World's 5 Largest Satellite Network Operators by Number of Subscribers.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 Globalstar Proprietary CDMA 0.439 (January 2011)[37]
2 Iridium Proprietary TDMA 0.427 (January 2011)[38]
3 Thuraya Proprietary FDMA/GSM 0.260 (December 2007)[39] Etisalat(28%)
4 Inmarsat Proprietary GSM 0.254 (September 2009)[40]
5 ACeS Dual-mode Satellite/GSM 0.020 (December 2007-pankaj Kumar)

By region

See also

References

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