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 Country Company Main markets Technology Total
subscriptions
(in
millions
)		 Ownership
(100% ownership unless stated otherwise)
1 China China Mobile
Communications Corporation
List
  •  China (China Mobile)
  •  Hong Kong (
    Zong
    )
List
  • TD-SCDMA
    ,
  • TD-HSDPA
    ,
  • TD-LTE, FD-LTE (Hong Kong only), 4G+, 5G
 997.4[1]
(April 2024)
Government of the People's Republic of China
(74.25%)
Public stock (25.75%)
2 India Bharti Airtel Limited
List
List
 562.0[2]
(March 2024) 		Bharti Enterprises (66.57%)
Singtel (32.15%)
Google (1.28%)
3 India Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited
List
List
 469.7[3]
(March 2024) 		Jio Platforms
Meta
Google
4 China China Telecom Corp., Ltd
List
  • China China
  •  Macau
List
 413.5[4]
(April 2024) 		China Telecommunications Corporation (State Owned) (70.89%)
5 China China Unicom Limited
List
  • China China Unicom
  • Hong Kong CUniq HK
  • United States CUniq US
  • United Kingdom CUniq UK
List
 333.0[5]
(December 2023) 		China Unicom Limited (40.92%)
China Netcom Group (29.49%)
Telefónica (0.6%)
6 United Kingdom Vodafone Group plc
List
)
List
 323.0[6]
(December 2023)
7 Mexico América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V
List
  • Telekom Austria)
  • Belarus Belarus (A1)
  • Brazil Brazil (Claro)
  • Bulgaria Bulgaria (A1)
  • Chile Chile (Claro)
  • Colombia Colombia (Claro)
  • Costa Rica Costa Rica (Claro)
  • Croatia Croatia (A1)
  • Dominican Republic Dominican Republic (Claro)
  • Ecuador Ecuador (Claro)
  • El Salvador El Salvador (Claro)
  • Guatemala Guatemala (Claro)
  • Honduras Honduras (Claro)
  • Liechtenstein Liechtenstein (A1)
  • Mexico Mexico (Telcel)
  • Nicaragua Nicaragua (Claro)
  • North Macedonia North Macedonia (A1)
  • Panama Panama (Claro)
  • Paraguay Paraguay (Claro)
  • Peru Peru (Claro)
  • Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (Claro)
  • Serbia Serbia (A1)
  • Slovenia Slovenia (A1 Slovenija)
  • Uruguay
Uruguay (Claro)
List
 311.6[7]
(March 2024) 		Helu Slim (36.50%)
Carlos Slim (6.84%)
Public stock (56.66%)
8 Spain Telefónica S.A.
List
  • Vivo)
  • Chile Chile (Movistar)
  • Colombia
Colombia (Movistar)
  • O2)
  • Uruguay Uruguay (Movistar)
  • Venezuela Venezuela (Movistar)
    • List
    • LTE
    		 298.7[8]
    (March 2024)
    9 South Africa MTN Group Limited
    List
    • Afghanistan Afghanistan
    • Benin Benin
    • Botswana Botswana
    • Cameroon Cameroon
    • Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo
    • Eswatini Eswatini (30%)
    • Ghana Ghana
    • Guinea Guinea
    • Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau
    • Iran Iran (49%)
    • Ivory Coast Ivory Coast
    • Liberia Liberia
    • Nigeria Nigeria
    • Rwanda Rwanda
    • South Africa South Africa
    • South Sudan South Sudan
    • Sudan Sudan
    • Syria Syria
    • Uganda Uganda
    • Yemen Yemen
    • Zambia Zambia
    List
    		 287.6[9]
    (March 2024)     		Public stock (60.02%)
    Government Employees Pension Fund (25.33%)
    M1 (10.05%)
    10 Germany Deutsche Telekom AG
    List
    )
    List
    		 255.8[10]
    (March 2024)
    Federal Republic of Germany
    (31.9%)
    11 France Orange S.A.
    List
    )
    List
    • LTE
    		 242.6[12]
    (March 2024)     		Public stock (77%)
    Government of France (23%)
    12 India
    Vodafone Idea Ltd
    List
    •  
      Vi
      )
    List
    		 219.8[13]
    (March 2024)
    American Tower Corporation
    (3.18%)
    13 USA
    AT&T Inc.
    List
    List
    		 217.4[14]
    (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%)[15]
    14 Malaysia Axiata Group Berhad
    List
    List
    		 162.5[16]
    (Decembef 2023)     		Public stock (54.91%)
    Government of Malaysia (45.09%)
    15 Indonesia PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel)
    List
    • Indonesia Indonesia (Telkomsel Halo, Telkomsel PraBayar, by.U)
      East Timor East Timor (Telkomcel)
    List
    		 159.3[17]
    (December 2023)     		Telkom Indonesia (65%)
    Singtel (35%)
    16 UAE
    Etisalat
    )
    List
    • Afghanistan Afghanistan
    • Benin Benin
    • Burkina Faso Burkina Faso
    • Central African Republic Central African Republic
    • Chad Chad
    • Egypt Egypt
    • Gabon Gabon
    • Ivory Coast Côte d'Ivoire
    • Mali Mali
    • Mauritania Mauritania
    • Morocco Morocco
    • Niger Niger
    • Pakistan Pakistan (26%)
    • Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (27%)
    • Togo Togo
    • United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates
    List
    • LTE
    		 159[18]
    (2021)     		Emirates Investment Authority (60.03%)
    Public stock (39.97%)
    17 Netherlands VEON Ltd.
    List
    • Bangladesh Bangladesh (Banglalink)
    • Kazakhstan Kazakhstan (Beeline)
    • Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan (Beeline)
    • Pakistan Pakistan (Jazz)
    • Ukraine Ukraine (Kyivstar)
    • Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (Beeline)
    List
    • LTE
    		 157
    (2022)
    Letterone Investment Holdings S.A.
    (47.9%)
    Public stock (43.8%)
    Stichting Administratiekantoor Mobile Telecommunications Investor (8.3%)
    18 USA
    Verizon Communications
    List
    )
    List
    		 143.3[19]
    (January 2023)
    Verizon Communications
    19 South Africa Vodacom
    List
    List
    		 154.9[20] (May 2024)
    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
    • Asia Cell) (30%)
    • Kuwait Kuwait
    • Maldives Maldives
    • Myanmar Myanmar (Ooredoo)
    • Oman Oman (Ooredoo)
    • Qatar Qatar
    • Tunisia
    Tunisia
    List
    • LTE
    		 121[21]
    (2021)
    Government of Qatar
    21 Vietnam Viettel Group
    List
    • Halotel)
    • Vietnam
    Vietnam
    List
    • LTE
    		 110.0[22]
    (December 2018)     		Government of Vietnam
    22 India BSNL Mobile
    List
    List
    		 106.03[26]
    (March 2023)[Note 2][23]     		Government of India
    23 HKG CK Hutchison Holdings – Telecom Division
    List
    List
    • LTE
    		 120[27](2022) CK Hutchison Holdings
    24 Norway Telenor ASA
    List
    List
    		 93.0[28][29]
    (March 2024)
    The Government Pension Fund of Norway
    (4.79%)
    25 Iran
    MTN Irancell
    List
    • Iran Iran
    List
    • VoWiFi
      )
    		92.46[30]
    (April 2020)     		TCI (94.09%)
    Sukuk (5.91%)
    26 Russia
    Mobile TeleSystems (MTS)
    List
    • Russia Russia (MTS)
    • Armenia Armenia (VivaCell-MTS)
    • Belarus Belarus (MTS)
    List
    • LTE
    		 83.85[31]
    (Q3 2021)     		Sistema (50.8%)
    27 Japan NTT Docomo Inc.
    List
    • Japan Japan
    List
    		 82.63[32]
    (May 2021)     		Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
    28 Philippines Globe Telecom Inc.
    List
    • Philippines Philippines (Globe, TM, GOMO)
    List
    		 53.73[33]
    (Aug 2023)     		Asiacom (50.81%)
    Singtel (20.08%)

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

    29 Philippines PLDT Inc.
    List
    List
    		 52.5[34]
    (Aug 2023)     		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%)

    30 Russia MegaFon
    List
    • Russia Russia
    • Tajikistan Tajikistan
    List
    		 70.5[35]
    (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)[36]
    2 Globalstar
    CDMA
    		 0.638 (March 2015)[37]
    3 Thuraya
    FDMA/GSM
    		 0.260 (December 2007)[38]
    Etisalat
    (28%)
    4 Inmarsat Proprietary GSM 0.254 (September 2009)[39]
    5 ACeS Dual-mode Satellite/GSM 0.020 (December 2007)

    By region

    See also

    Footnotes

    1. MTNL merger approved by Government of India
      .
    2. ^ After adding subscribers of MTNL to BSNL, because MTNL will merge with BSNL.

    References

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    2. ^ "Quarterly Highlights Report" (PDF). 31 March 2024.
    3. ^ "Trai Press Release 23/2024" (PDF). 31 March 2024.
    4. ^ "China Telecom Monthly Reports". China Telecom Corporation. 30 April 2024.
    5. ^ "Annual Report 2023" (PDF). 31 December 2023.
    6. ^ "Annual Report 2023" (PDF). 31 December 2023.
    7. ^ "1Q 2024 Reports" (PDF). 31 March 2024.
    8. ^ "1Q Results 2024". 31 March 2024.
    9. ^ "Q1 Results 2024" (PDF). 31 March 2024.
    10. ^ "Interim Group Report 1Q 2024" (PDF). 31 March 2024.
    11. ^ "Non-controlling equity interest: Iraq". Orange. Archived from the original on 25 February 2020.
    12. ^ "Q1 Press Release 2024". 31 March 2024.
    13. ^ "Trai Press Release 23/2024" (PDF). 31 March 2024.
    14. ^ "AT&T Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results". about.att.com. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
    15. ^ "AT&T INC. Ownership summary| NASDAQ". nasdaq.com. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
    16. ^ "Axiata Integrated 2019 Annual Report 2023" (PDF).
    17. ^ "Annual Report 2023" (PDF). December 2023.
    18. ^ "Etisalat 2Q Report 2020" (PDF). p. 4. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
    19. ^ "Strong wireless service revenue growth highlights Verizon's 4Q and 2022 results". verizon.com. 24 January 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
    20. ^ "Group Results 24".
    21. ^ "Q1 2021 Results" (PDF). Ooredoo. April 2021. p. 12.
    22. ^ "Viettel to become a digital service provider this year". Viettel Group. 14 December 2019.
    23. ^ a b "MTNL to be act as BSNL subsidiary Till Merger Complete". The Hindu. 29 June 2019.
    24. ^ "Government approves Revival package for BSNL, MTNL". The Economic Times. 23 October 2019.
    25. ^ "BSNL, MTNL to be merged, along with special package". India Today. 23 October 2019.
    26. ^ "TRAI subscription data". April 2022.
    27. ^ "Customer base, 2019" (PDF). CK Hutchison Holdings Limited. 19 March 2020.
    28. ^ "Telenor Group's Results 1Q 2024" (PDF). 31 March 2024.
    29. ^ "PTCL acquires 100% shares of Telenor Pakistan for Rs108 billion". 15 December 2023.
    30. ^ 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.
    31. ^ "Q1 2021 Results" (PDF). MTS. 18 May 2021. p. 2.
    32. ^ "NTT FY2020" (PDF). 12 May 2021.
    33. ^ "Report 1Q 2021" (PDF). 7 May 2021. p. 4.
    34. ^ "Financial highlights 1Q 2021" (PDF). 6 May 2021.
    35. ^ "KPI Q1 2020". MegaFon. 28 May 2020.
    36. ^ "Iridium Q2 2016 Results" (PDF). 30 June 2016.
    37. ^ "Globestar Announces Q1 2015 Results". Globalstar.com. 31 March 2015.
    38. ^ "Thuraya Launches SMS Info Service with CNN" (Press release). Thuraya. 27 November 2007. Archived from the original on 3 January 2010.
    39. ^ "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

    For a more comprehensive list of mobile phone operators, see Mobile country codes.

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