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) |
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| 1 |  China MobileCommunications Corporation |
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945.50 [1] (June 2021) |
Government of the People's Republic of China (74.25%) Public stock (25.75%) | |
| 2 |  Bharti Airtel Limited
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480 [2] (September-2021) |
Bharti Enterprises (66.57%) SingTel (32.15%) Google (1.28%) | |
| 3 | Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited
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406.39 [3] (January 2022) |
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| 4 | China Telecom Corp., Ltd
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362.49[4] (June 2021) |
China Telecommunications Corporation (State Owned) (70.89%) |
| 5 |  Vodafone Group plc
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315[5][Note 1] (FY 2021) |
[Note 2] | |
| 6 | China Unicom Limited
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310.45[6] (June 2021) |
China Unicom Limited (40.92%) China Netcom Group (29.49%) Telefonica (0.6%) | |
| 7 |  América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V
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297.73[7] (June 2021) |
Helu Slim (36.50%) Carlos Slim (6.84%) Public stock (56.66%) | |
| 8 |  MTN Group Limited
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280[8] (Dec 2020) |
Public stock (60.02%) Government Employees Pension Fund (25.33%) M1 (10.05%) |
| 9 |  Telefónica S.A.
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274.91[9] (June 2021) |
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| 10 | Vodafone Idea
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265.13[3] (January 2022) |
Government of India (35.8%) Vodafone Group (28.5%) Aditya Birla Group (17.8%) Private equity (17.9%) | ||
| 11 |  Orange S.A.
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259[11] (2020) |
Public stock (77%) Government of France (23%) | |
| 12 |  Deutsche Telekom AG
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246.6[12] (June 2021) |
Free float (68.1%) Federal Republic of Germany (31.9%) | |
| 13 |  VEON Ltd.
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212.7[13] (Q1 2021) |
Letterone Investment Holdings S.A. (47.9%) Public stock (43.8%) Stichting Administratiekantoor Mobile Telecommunications Investor (8.3%) | |
| 14 |  AT&T Inc.
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191.64[14] (June 2021) |
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%) [15] | |
| 15 |  Telenor ASA
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170.28[16] (Q2 2021) |
Government of Norway (53.97%) Public stock (41.74%) The Government Pension Fund of Norway (4.79%) | ||
| 16 |  PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel)
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164.69[17] (Q1 2021) |
Telkom Indonesia (65%) Singtel (35%) | |
| 17 |  Axiata Group Berhad
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157[18][19] (2020) |
Public stock (54.91%) Government of Malaysia (45.09%) | ||
| 18 |  Emirates TelecommunicationGroup Company PJSC (Etisalat) |
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154[20] (2020) |
Emirates Investment Authority (60.03%) Public stock (39.97%) | |
| 19 | Verizon Wireless
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120.85[21] (April 2021) |
Verizon Communications | |
| 20 | Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
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113.98 [3] (January 2022)[Note 4][22] |
Government of India | ||
| 21 |  Ooredoo QSC
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117.6[25] (April 2021) |
Government of Qatar | |
| 22 |  Viettel Group
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110.0[26] (December 2018) |
Government of Vietnam | ||
| 23 |  CKH Group Telecom
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98.49[27](2020) | CK Hutchison Holdings | |
| 24 |  MCI Hamrahe Aval
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92.46[28] (April 2020) |
TCI (94.09%) Sukuk (5.91%) | |
| 25 |  Mobile TeleSystems (MTS)
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84.9[29] (Q1 2021) |
Sistema (50.8%) | |
| 26 |  NTT Docomo Inc.
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82.63[30] (May 2021) |
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone | |
| 27 |  Globe Telecom Inc.
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79.8[31] (May 2021) |
Asiacom (50.81%) Singtel (20.08%) Public stock (15.65%) | |
| 28 | PLDT Inc.
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71.8[32] (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%) | |
| 29 | MegaFon
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70.5[33] (Q1 2021) |
AF Telecom Holding LLC (56.32%) USM Telecom LLC (43.68%) | |
| 30 | KDDI
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60.56[34] (June 2021) |
KDDI Corporation |
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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 |
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| 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
- List of mobile network operators of the Americas
- List of mobile network operators of the Asia Pacific region
- List of mobile network operators of Europe
- List of mobile network operators of the Middle East and Africa
See also
- Comparison of mobile phone standards
- List of countries 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
- ↑ "3 FY21 additional information" (xlsx). investors.vodafone.com. Vodafone Group Plc.
- ↑ Vodafone Australia does not offer GSM, GPRS and EDGE.
- ↑ BSNL and MTNL merger approved by Government of India.
- ↑ After adding subscribers of MTNL to BSNL, because MTNL will merge with BSNL.
References
- ↑ "Monthly Customer Data". China Mobile. 7 July 2020.
- ↑ "Quarterly IR Pack Bharti Airtel Consolidated" (PDF). bharti airtel. 31 December 2020. p. 3. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "TRAI subscription data" (PDF). January 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "China Telecom Corporation". China Telecom. 7 July 2020.
- ↑ "Quarterly Results" (PDF). Vodafone Group plc. 3 February 2021. p. 7.
- ↑ "Operation Data". China Unicom. 7 September 2020.
- ↑ "3Q 2020 Reports" (PDF). América Móvil. 20 October 2020.
- ↑ "Q3 Report September 2020" (PDF). MTN Group. 6 September 2020.
- ↑ "January–December FY 2020 Report". December 2020. p. 8.
- ↑ "Non-controlling equity interest: Iraq". Orange. Archived from the original on 25 February 2020.
- ↑ "Press Report 3Q 2020" (PDF). 29 October 2020. p. 15.
- ↑ "3Q 2020 Report". 12 November 2020. p. 2.
- ↑ "Report 3Q 2020" (PDF). Veon. 29 October 2020.
- ↑ "AT&T 3Q Financial Report" (PDF). investors.att.com. p. 7. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
- ↑ "AT&T INC. Ownership summary| NASDAQ". www.nasdaq.com. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
- ↑ "3Q 2020 Telenor ASA Group Report" (PDF). 21 October 2020. p. 1.
- ↑ "Telkom Indonesia Q1 2021 financial results" (PDF). June 2021. p. 12.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Axiata 4th Quarter 2019 Financials" (PDF).
- ↑ "Axiata 4Q19 Data Financials".
- ↑ "Etisalat 2Q Report 2020" (PDF). p. 4. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
- ↑ "Verizon Q1 2021". www.verizon.com. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 22.0 22.1 "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.
- ↑ "Q1 2021 Results" (PDF). Ooredoo. April 2021. p. 12.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Viettel to become a digital service provider this year". Viettel Group. 14 December 2019.
- ↑ "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 فارسی). Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ↑ "Q1 2021 Results" (PDF). MTS. 18 May 2021. p. 2.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "NTT FY2020" (PDF). 12 May 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Report 1Q 2021" (PDF). 7 May 2021. p. 4.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Financial highlights 1Q 2021" (PDF). 6 May 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "KPI Q1 2020". MegaFon. 28 May 2020.
- ↑ "KDDI FY2021". 12 September 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "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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