List of mobile network operators

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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
  •  China (China Mobile)
  •  Hong Kong (CMHK)
  •  Pakistan (Zong)
  •  Thailand (TrueMove H)
  •  United Kingdom (CMLink)
List
  • GSM, GPRS, EDGE, TD-SCDMA,
  • TD-HSDPA,
  • TD-LTE, FD-LTE (Hong Kong only)
 945.50 [1]
(June 2021) 		Government of the People's Republic of China (74.25%)
Public stock (25.75%)
2 India Bharti Airtel Limited
List
  •  Chad (Airtel)
  •  Bangladesh (Robi) (28.18%)
  •  DR Congo (Airtel)
  •  Gabon (Airtel)
  •  Guernsey (Airtel-Vodafone)
  •  India (Airtel)
  •  Jersey (Airtel-Vodafone)
  •  Kenya (Airtel Kenya)
  •  Madagascar (Airtel)
  •  Malawi (Airtel)
  •  Niger (Airtel)
  •  Nigeria (Airtel)
  •  Republic of the Congo (Airtel)
  •  Rwanda (Airtel)
  •  Seychelles (Airtel)
  •  Sri Lanka (Airtel Sri Lanka)
  •  Tanzania (Airtel Tanzania)
  •  Uganda (Airtel Uganda)
  •  Zambia (Airtel)
List
 480 [2]
(September-2021) 		Bharti Enterprises (64%)
SingTel (36%)
3 India Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited
List
  •  India (Jio)
List
 424.84 [3][4]
(September 2021)

Jio Platforms

4 China China Telecom Corp., Ltd
List
  • China China
  •  Macau
List
 362.49[5]
(June 2021) 		China Telecommunications Corporation (State Owned) (70.89%)
5 United Kingdom Vodafone Group plc
List
  • Albania Albania (Vodafone)
  • Australia Australia (Vodafone)
  • Brazil Brazil (Vodafone)
  • Czech Republic Czech Republic (Vodafone)
  • Egypt Egypt (Vodafone)
  • Fiji Fiji (Vodafone)
  • Germany Germany (Vodafone)
  • Ghana Ghana (Vodafone)
  • Greece Greece (Vodafone)
  • Hungary Hungary (Vodafone)
  • Iceland Iceland (Vodafone)
  • Republic of Ireland Ireland (Vodafone)
  • Italy Italy (Vodafone)
  • Iraq Iraq (Vodafone)
  • Jordan Jordan (Vodafone)
  • Netherlands Netherlands (Vodafone)
  • Cyprus Cyprus (CYTA)
  • New Zealand New Zealand (Vodafone)
  • Portugal Portugal (Vodafone)
  • Qatar Qatar (Vodafone)
  • Romania Romania (Vodafone)
  • South Africa South Africa (Vodacom)
  • Spain Spain (Vodafone)
  • Turkey Turkey (Vodafone)
  • Ukraine Ukraine (Vodafone)
  • United Kingdom United Kingdom (Vodafone)
List
[Note 1] 		315[6][Note 2]
(FY 2021)
6 China China Unicom Limited
List
  • China China Unicom
  • Hong Kong CUniq HK
  • United States CUniq US
  • United Kingdom CUniq UK
List
 310.45[7]
(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
List
List
 297.73[8]
(June 2021) 		Helu Slim (36.50%)
Carlos Slim (6.84%)
Public stock (56.66%)
8 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
  • GSM,
280[9]
(Dec 2020) 		Public stock (60.02%)
Government Employees Pension Fund (25.33%)
M1 (10.05%)
9 Spain Telefónica S.A.
List
  • Argentina Argentina (Movistar)
  • Brazil Brazil (Vivo)
  • Chile Chile (Movistar)
  • Colombia Colombia (Movistar)
  • Ecuador Ecuador (Movistar)
  • Germany Germany (O2)
  • Mexico Mexico (Movistar)
  • Peru Peru (Movistar)
  • Spain Spain (Movistar)
  • Sudan Sudan (Sudan Unicom)
  • United Kingdom United Kingdom (O2)
  • Uruguay Uruguay (Movistar)
  • Venezuela Venezuela (Movistar)
List
  • D-AMPS, cdmaOne, CDMA2000,
  • GSM, GPRS, EDGE,
  • UMTS, HSDPA,
  • LTE
274.91[10]
(June 2021)
10 India Vodafone Idea Limited
List
  •  India (Vi)
List
 269.99[3]
(September 2021) 		Vodafone Group (44.4%)
Aditya Birla Group (26.0%)
Axiata Group Berhad (8.17%)
Private equity (20.73%)
11 France Orange S.A.
List
  • Belgium Belgium (Orange)
  • Botswana Botswana (Orange)
  • Cameroon Cameroon (Orange)
  • Central African Republic Central African Republic (Orange)
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo (Orange)
  • Dominican Republic Dominican Republic (Orange)
  • Egypt Egypt (Orange)
  • Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea (Orange)
  • France France (Orange)
  • Guinea Guinea (Sonatel)
  • Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau (Sonatel)
  • Iraq Iraq (Korek) (20%)[11]
  • Ivory Coast Ivory Coast
  • Jordan Jordan (Orange)
  • Kenya Kenya (Orange)
  • Luxembourg Luxembourg
  • Madagascar Madagascar (Orange)
  • Mali Mali (Orange)
  • Moldova Moldova (Orange)
  • Morocco Morocco (Orange)
  • Niger Niger (Orange)
  • Poland Poland (Orange)
  • Romania Romania (Orange)
  • Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia (Orange)
  • Senegal Senegal (Orange) (50%)
  • Spain Spain (Orange)
  • Tunisia Tunisia (Orange)
List
  • GSM, GPRS, EDGE,
  • UMTS, HSDPA, HSPA+,
  • LTE
259[12]
(2020) 		Public stock (77%)
Government of France (23%)
12 Germany Deutsche Telekom AG
List
List
  • GSM, GPRS, EDGE,
  • UMTS, HSPA, HSPA+, DC-HSPA+,
  • LTE, LTE-A, LTE-A Pro, NR
246.6[13]
(June 2021) 		Free float (68.1%)
Federal Republic of Germany (31.9%)
13 Netherlands VEON Ltd.
List
  • Algeria Algeria (Djezzy)
  • Bangladesh Bangladesh (Banglalink)
  • Georgia (country) Georgia (Beeline)
  • Kazakhstan Kazakhstan (Beeline)
  • Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan (Beeline)
  • Pakistan Pakistan (Jazz)
  • Russia Russia (Beeline)
  • Ukraine Ukraine (Kyivstar)
  • Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (Beeline)
List
  • GSM, GPRS, EDGE,
  • UMTS, HSDPA, HSPA+,
  • LTE
212.7[14]
(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.
List
List
 191.64[15]
(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%) [16]
15 Norway Telenor ASA
List
  • Bangladesh Bangladesh (Grameenphone)
  • Denmark Denmark (Telenor)
  • Finland Finland (DNA PLC)
  • Malaysia Malaysia (DiGi)
  • Norway Norway (Telenor)
  • Pakistan Pakistan (Telenor)
  • Sweden Sweden (Telenor)
  • Thailand Thailand (dtac)
List
  • GSM, GPRS, EDGE,
  • UMTS, HSDPA,
  • LTE
170.28[17]
(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)
List
  • Indonesia Indonesia (Telkomsel)
    East Timor East Timor (Telkomcel)
List
  • GSM, GPRS, EDGE,
  • UMTS, HSDPA, HSPA+,
  • LTE
164.69[18]
(Q1 2021) 		PT Telkom Indonesia (65%)
Singtel (35%)
17 Malaysia Axiata Group Berhad
List
List
 157[19][20]
(2020) 		Public stock (54.91%)
Government of Malaysia (45.09%)
18 United Arab Emirates Emirates Telecommunication
Group Company PJSC (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
  • GSM, GPRS, EDGE,
  • UMTS, HSDPA,
  • LTE
154[21]
(2020) 		Emirates Investment Authority (60.03%)
Public stock (39.97%)
19 United States Verizon Wireless
List
  • United States United States
List
  • CDMA, EV-DO,
  • LTE
120.85[22]
(April 2021) 		Verizon Communications
20 Qatar Ooredoo QSC
List
  • Algeria Algeria (Ooredoo) (46.4%)
  • Indonesia Indonesia (Indosat Ooredoo)
  • Iraq Iraq (Asia Cell) (30%)
  • Kuwait Kuwait
  • Maldives Maldives
  • Myanmar Myanmar (Ooredoo)
  • Oman Oman (Ooredoo)
  • Qatar Qatar
  • Tunisia Tunisia
List
  • CDMA, EV-DO,
  • GSM, GPRS, EDGE,
  • UMTS, HSDPA, HSPA+,
  • LTE
117.6[23]
(April 2021) 		Government of Qatar
21 India Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
List
List
  • GSM, GPRS, EDGE,
  • UMTS, HSPA, HSDPA, TD-HSDPA, HSPA+
  • , LTE, TD-LTE, FD-LTE, LTE Advanced
116.72 [3]
(September 2021)[Note 4][24] 		Government of India
22 Vietnam Viettel Group
List
  • Burundi Burundi (Lumitel)
  • Cambodia Cambodia (Metfone)
  • Cameroon Cameroon (Nexttel)
  • East Timor East Timor (Telemor)
  • Haiti Haiti (Natcom)
  • Laos Laos (Unitel)
  • Mozambique Mozambique (Movitel)
  • Myanmar Myanmar (Mytel)
  • Peru Peru (Bitel)
  • Tanzania Tanzania (Halotel)
  • Vietnam Vietnam
List
  • CDMA,
  • GSM, GPRS, EDGE,
  • UMTS, HSDPA, HSPA+, LTE
110.0[27]
(December 2018) 		Government of Vietnam
23 Hong Kong CKH Group Telecom
List
  • Hong Kong Hong Kong
  • Macau Macau
  • United Kingdom United Kingdom (Three)
  • Austria Austria
  • Sweden Sweden
  • Denmark Denmark
  • Indonesia Indonesia
  • Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (Hutch)
  • Italy Italy (Wind Tre)
  • Vietnam Vietnam (Vietnamobile)
  • Republic of Ireland Ireland (3)
List
  • CDMA,
  • GSM, GPRS, EDGE,
  • UMTS,
  • LTE
98.49[28](2020) CK Hutchison Holdings
24 Iran MCI Hamrahe Aval
List
  • Iran Iran
List
  • GSM 900/1800 MHz (GPRS, EDGE)
    2100/900 MHz (HSPA, DC-HSPA+)
    1800/2600/2100/900 MHz (LTE, LTE-A), (VoLTE, VoWiFi)
92.46[29]
(April 2020) 		TCI (94.09%)
Sukuk (5.91%)
25 Russia Mobile TeleSystems (MTS)
List
  • Russia Russia (MTS)
  • Armenia Armenia (VivaCell-MTS)
  • Belarus Belarus (MTS)
List
  • CDMA,
  • GSM, GPRS, EDGE,
  • UMTS,
  • LTE
84.9[30]
(Q1 2021) 		Sistema (50.8%)
26 Japan NTT Docomo Inc.
List
  • Japan Japan
List
 82.63[31]
(May 2021) 		Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
27 Philippines Globe Telecom Inc.
List
  • Philippines Philippines
List
 79.8[32]
(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.
List
  • Philippines Philippines (Smart, TNT, Sun Cellular)
List
  • GSM, GPRS, EDGE,
  • UMTS, HSDPA, HSPA, HSPA+,
  • LTE,
  • WiMAX
71.8[33]
(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
List
  • Russia Russia
  • Tajikistan Tajikistan
List
 70.5[34]
(Q1 2021) 		AF Telecom Holding LLC (56.32%)
USM Telecom LLC (43.68%)
30 Japan KDDI
List
  • Japan Japan (Au)
List
 60.56[35]
(June 2021) 		KDDI Corporation

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 United States Iridium Proprietary TDMA 0.824 (June 2016)[36]
2 United States Globalstar Proprietary CDMA 0.638 (March 2015)[37]
3 United Arab Emirates Thuraya Proprietary FDMA/GSM 0.260 (December 2007)[38] Etisalat (28%)
4 United Kingdom Inmarsat Proprietary GSM 0.254 (September 2009)[39]
5 Indonesia 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[]

Footnotes[]

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

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  3. ^ a b c "TRAI subscription data" (PDF). September 2021.
  4. ^ "Financial and Operational Performance of Jio Platforms Limited Q1 2020–2021 Report". Reliance industries. 30 July 2020.
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  20. ^ "Axiata 4Q19 Data Financials".
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