List of mobile network operators

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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 Company Main markets Technology Total
subscriptions
(in millions)		 Ownership
(100% ownership unless stated otherwise)
1 China China Mobile
Communications Corporation 		945.50 [1]
(June 2021) 		Government of the People's Republic of China (74.25%)
Public stock (25.75%)
2 India Bharti Airtel Limited 480 [2]
(September-2021) 		Bharti Enterprises (66.57%)
SingTel (32.15%)
Google (1.28%)
3 India Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited 406.39 [3]
(January 2022)

Jio Platforms

4 China China Telecom Corp., Ltd 362.49[4]
(June 2021) 		China Telecommunications Corporation (State Owned) (70.89%)
5 United Kingdom Vodafone Group plc 315[5][Note 1]
(FY 2021)		 [Note 2]
6 China China Unicom Limited 310.45[6]
(June 2021) 		China Unicom Limited (40.92%)
China Netcom Group (29.49%)
Telefonica (0.6%)
7 Mexico América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V 297.73[7]
(June 2021) 		Helu Slim (36.50%)
Carlos Slim (6.84%)
Public stock (56.66%)
8 South Africa MTN Group Limited 280[8]
(Dec 2020) 		Public stock (60.02%)
Government Employees Pension Fund (25.33%)
M1 (10.05%)
9 Spain Telefónica S.A. 274.91[9]
(June 2021)
10 India Vodafone Idea 265.13[3]
(January 2022) 		Government of India (35.8%)
Vodafone Group (28.5%)
Aditya Birla Group (17.8%)
Private equity (17.9%)
11 France Orange S.A. 259[11]
(2020) 		Public stock (77%)
Government of France (23%)
12 Germany Deutsche Telekom AG 246.6[12]
(June 2021) 		Free float (68.1%)
Federal Republic of Germany (31.9%)
13 Netherlands VEON Ltd. 212.7[13]
(Q1 2021) 		Letterone Investment Holdings S.A. (47.9%)
Public stock (43.8%)
Stichting Administratiekantoor Mobile Telecommunications Investor (8.3%)
14 United States AT&T Inc. 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 Norway Telenor ASA 170.28[16]
(Q2 2021) 		Government of Norway (53.97%)
Public stock (41.74%)
The Government Pension Fund of Norway (4.79%)
16 Indonesia PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel) 164.69[17]
(Q1 2021) 		Telkom Indonesia (65%)
Singtel (35%)
17 Malaysia Axiata Group Berhad 157[18][19]
(2020) 		Public stock (54.91%)
Government of Malaysia (45.09%)
18 United Arab Emirates Emirates Telecommunication
Group Company PJSC (Etisalat) 		154[20]
(2020) 		Emirates Investment Authority (60.03%)
Public stock (39.97%)
19 United States Verizon Wireless 120.85[21]
(April 2021) 		Verizon Communications
20 India Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited 113.98 [3]
(January 2022)[Note 4][22] 		Government of India
21 Qatar Ooredoo QSC 117.6[25]
(April 2021) 		Government of Qatar
22 Vietnam Viettel Group 110.0[26]
(December 2018) 		Government of Vietnam
23 Hong Kong CKH Group Telecom 98.49[27](2020) CK Hutchison Holdings
24 Iran MCI Hamrahe Aval 92.46[28]
(April 2020) 		TCI (94.09%)
Sukuk (5.91%)
25 Russia Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) 84.9[29]
(Q1 2021) 		Sistema (50.8%)
26 Japan NTT Docomo Inc. 82.63[30]
(May 2021) 		Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
27 Philippines Globe Telecom Inc. 79.8[31]
(May 2021) 		Asiacom (50.81%)
Singtel (20.08%)

Public stock (15.65%)
Ayala Corporation (13.19%)
Directors, Officers,Executive Stock Option Plan (0.26%)

28 Philippines PLDT Inc. 71.8[32]
(May 2021) 		Public (41.55%)
NTT Docomo (14.5%)

Philippine Telecommunications Investment Corp. (12.05%)
JG Summit Holdings (11.27%)

Metro Pacific Resources, Inc. (9.98%)

NTT Communications Corp (5.85%)

First Pacific (3.54%)

29 Russia MegaFon 70.5[33]
(Q1 2021) 		AF Telecom Holding LLC (56.32%)
USM Telecom LLC (43.68%)
30 Japan KDDI 60.56[34]
(June 2021) 		KDDI Corporation

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 United States Iridium Proprietary TDMA 0.824 (June 2016)[35]
2 United States Globalstar Proprietary CDMA 0.638 (March 2015)[36]
3 United Arab Emirates Thuraya Proprietary FDMA/GSM 0.260 (December 2007)[37] Etisalat (28%)
4 United Kingdom Inmarsat Proprietary GSM 0.254 (September 2009)[38]
5 Indonesia ACeS Dual-mode Satellite/GSM 0.020 (December 2007)

By region[edit]

See also[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ↑ "3 FY21 additional information" (xlsx). investors.vodafone.com. Vodafone Group Plc.
  2. ↑ Vodafone Australia does not offer GSM, GPRS and EDGE.
  3. ↑ BSNL and MTNL merger approved by Government of India.
  4. ↑ After adding subscribers of MTNL to BSNL, because MTNL will merge with BSNL.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Monthly Customer Data". China Mobile. 7 July 2020.
  2. ↑ "Quarterly IR Pack Bharti Airtel Consolidated" (PDF). bharti airtel. 31 December 2020. p. 3. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "TRAI subscription data" (PDF). January 2022.
  4. ↑ "China Telecom Corporation". China Telecom. 7 July 2020.
  5. ↑ "Quarterly Results" (PDF). Vodafone Group plc. 3 February 2021. p. 7.
  6. ↑ "Operation Data". China Unicom. 7 September 2020.
  7. ↑ "3Q 2020 Reports" (PDF). América Móvil. 20 October 2020.
  8. ↑ "Q3 Report September 2020" (PDF). MTN Group. 6 September 2020.
  9. ↑ "January–December FY 2020 Report". December 2020. p. 8.
  10. ↑ "Non-controlling equity interest: Iraq". Orange. Archived from the original on 25 February 2020.
  11. ↑ "Press Report 3Q 2020" (PDF). 29 October 2020. p. 15.
  12. ↑ "3Q 2020 Report". 12 November 2020. p. 2.
  13. ↑ "Report 3Q 2020" (PDF). Veon. 29 October 2020.
  14. ↑ "AT&T 3Q Financial Report" (PDF). investors.att.com. p. 7. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  15. ↑ "AT&T INC. Ownership summary| NASDAQ". www.nasdaq.com. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  16. ↑ "3Q 2020 Telenor ASA Group Report" (PDF). 21 October 2020. p. 1.
  17. ↑ "Telkom Indonesia Q1 2021 financial results" (PDF). June 2021. p. 12.
  18. ↑ "Axiata 4th Quarter 2019 Financials" (PDF).
  19. ↑ "Axiata 4Q19 Data Financials".
  20. ↑ "Etisalat 2Q Report 2020" (PDF). p. 4. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  21. ↑ "Verizon Q1 2021". www.verizon.com. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 "MTNL to be act as BSNL subsidiary Till Merger Complete". The Hindu. 29 June 2019.
  23. ↑ "Government approves Revival package for BSNL, MTNL". Economic Times. 23 October 2019.
  24. ↑ "BSNL, MTNL to be merged, along with special package". India Today. 23 October 2019.
  25. ↑ "Q1 2021 Results" (PDF). Ooredoo. April 2021. p. 12.
  26. ↑ "Viettel to become a digital service provider this year". Viettel Group. 14 December 2019.
  27. ↑ "Customer base, 2019" (PDF). CK Hutchison Holdings Limited. 19 March 2020.
  28. ↑ 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.
  29. ↑ "Q1 2021 Results" (PDF). MTS. 18 May 2021. p. 2.
  30. ↑ "NTT FY2020" (PDF). 12 May 2021.
  31. ↑ "Report 1Q 2021" (PDF). 7 May 2021. p. 4.
  32. ↑ "Financial highlights 1Q 2021" (PDF). 6 May 2021.
  33. ↑ "KPI Q1 2020". MegaFon. 28 May 2020.
  34. ↑ "KDDI FY2021". 12 September 2021.
  35. ↑ "Iridium Q2 2016 Results" (PDF). 30 June 2016.
  36. ↑ "Globestar Announces Q1 2015 Results". Globalstar.com. 31 March 2015.
  37. ↑ "Thuraya Launches SMS Info Service with CNN" (Press release). Thuraya. 27 November 2007. Archived from the original on 3 January 2010.
  38. ↑ "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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