List of mobile network operators

This is a list of mobile network and satellite phone network operators measured by number of subscriptions.

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.

RankCompanyMain marketsTechnologyTotal
subscriptions
(in millions)		Ownership
(100% ownership unless stated otherwise)
1 China Mobile
Communications Corporation		 946.73 [1]
(June 2020)		 Government of the People's Republic of China (74.25%)
Public stock (25.75%)
2 Bharti Airtel Limited 419.99 [2][3]
(June 2020)		 Bharti Enterprises (64%)

SingTel (36%)

3 Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited 398.30 [3][4]
(June 2020)

Jio Platforms

4 China Telecom Corp., Ltd 343.47[5]
(June 2020)		 China Telecommunications Corporation (State Owned) (70.89%)
5 China Unicom Limited 309.52[6]
(June 2020)		 China Unicom Limited (40.92%)
China Netcom Group (29.49%)
Telefonica (9.7%)
6 Vodafone Idea Limited 279.80 [3][7]
(June 2020)		 Vodafone Group (44.4%)
Aditya Birla Group (26.0%)
Axiata Group Berhad (8.17%)
Private equity (20.73%)
7 América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V 277.50[8]
(July 2020)		 Helu Slim (36.50%)
Carlos Slim (6.84%)
Public stock (56.66%)
8 MTN Group Limited 261.46[9]
(August 2020)		 Public stock (68.02%)
Government Employees Pension Fund (17.23%)
M1 (7.72%)
9 Vodafone Group plc [Note 1] 261.34[10][Note 2]
(July 2020)
10 Telefónica S.A. 256.20[11]
(July 2020)
11 Deutsche Telekom AG 245.20[12]
(June 2020)		 Free float (68.2%)
Federal Republic of Germany (31.8%)
12 Orange S.A. 207.96[14]
(July 2020)		 Public stock (77%)
Government of France (23%)
13 VEON Ltd. 204.60[15]
(August 2020)		 Letterone Investment Holdings S.A. (47.9%)
Public stock (43.8%)
Stichting Administratiekantoor Mobile Telecommunications Investor (8.3%)
14 Telenor ASA 182.42[16]
(July 2020)		 Government of Norway (53.97%)
Public stock (41.74%)
The Government Pension Fund of Norway (4.79%)
15 AT&T Inc. 171.41[17]
(July 2020)		 Institutional Shares (59.28%)
VANGUARD GROUP INC (14.12%)
BLACKROCK INC. (11.49%)
STATE STREET CORP (7.53%)
NEWPORT TRUST CO (5.07%)
GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC (2.52%) [18]
16 Telkomsel (PT Telekomunikasi Selular) 162.57[19]
(July 2020)		 PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (65%)
Singtel (35%)
17 Emirates Telecommunication
Group Company PJSC (Etisalat)		 146.10[20]
(July 2020)		 Emirates Investment Authority (60.03%)
Public stock (39.97%)
18 Axiata Group Berhad 145.84[21][22]
(February 2020)		 Public stock (54.91%)
Government of Malaysia (45.09%)
19 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited 123.22 [3]
(April 2020)[Note 4][23]		 Government of India
20 Verizon Wireless 119.87[26]
(July 2020)		 Verizon Communications
21 Ooredoo QSC 118.32[27]
(April 2020)
22 Viettel Group 110.0[28]
(December 2018)		 Government of Vietnam
23 CKH Group Telecom 98.49[29](2020) CK Hutchison Holdings
24 Globe Telecom Inc. 89.32[30]
(May 2020)		 Asiacom (54.5%)
Singtel (21.5%)
Ayala Corporation (13.9%)
Public stock (10.2%)
25 Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) 86.40[31]
(May 2020)		 Sistema (50.8%)
26 NTT Docomo Inc. 79.67[32]
(December 2019)		 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
27 MegaFon 75.10[33]
(May 2020)		 AF Telecom Holding LLC (56.32%)
USM Telecom LLC (43.68%)
28 PLDT Inc. 73.08[34]
(May 2020)
29 TIM 54.5[35]
(September 2019)
30 Globacom Limited 52.42[36][37]
(December 2019)

Satellite based

This is a list of the world's five largest satellite phone network operators measured by number of subscribers.

RankOperatorTechnologySubscribers
(in millions)		Ownership
1 IridiumProprietary TDMA0.824 (June 2016)[38]
2 GlobalstarProprietary CDMA0.638 (March 2015)[39]
3 ThurayaProprietary FDMA/GSM0.260 (December 2007)[40]Etisalat (28%)
4 InmarsatProprietary GSM0.254 (September 2009)[41]
5 ACeSDual-mode Satellite/GSM0.020 (December 2007)

By region

See also

Footnotes
  1. Vodafone Australia does not offer GSM, GPRS and EDGE.
  2. https://investors.vodafone.com/sites/vodafone-ir/files/result_document/Q1-fy21/Vodafone_Q1_FY21_additional_information.xlsx
  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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  6. "Operation Data". China Unicom. 7 July 2020.
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  35. "Financial Results Q3 2019" (PDF). 30 September 2019. p. 12.
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  39. "Globestar Announces Q1 2015 Results". Globalstar.com. 31 March 2015.
  40. Archived 3 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  41. Archived 6 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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