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|| 413.4<ref name="Airtel">{{cite web |url=https://s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/bsy/iportal/images/Quarterly-Report_Q3FY18_36AF3638D91590AB1F8809DF768F8322.pdf |title = Quarterly Report |publisher = Airtel |date=2017-12-31}}</ref><br /><small>(December 2017)</small>
|| 395.7<ref name="Airtel">{{cite web |url=https://www.airtel.in/about-bharti/equity |title = Fact Sheet |publisher = Airtel |date=2018-03-31}}</ref><br /><small>(March 2018)</small>
|| [[Bharti Airtel|Bharti Telecom Limited]] (45.09%)<br /> Public stock (28.16%)<br /> [[Pastel Limited]] (14.79%)<br /> [[Indian Continent Investment Limited]] (6.65%)<br /> [[Life Insurance Corporation of India]] (5.31%)
|| [[Bharti Airtel|Bharti Telecom Limited]] (45.09%)<br /> Public stock (28.16%)<br /> [[Pastel Limited]] (14.79%)<br /> [[Indian Continent Investment Limited]] (6.65%)<br /> [[Life Insurance Corporation of India]] (5.31%)
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Revision as of 21:14, 7 May 2018

This is a list of mobile phone 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 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
List
  • China China (China Mobile)
  • Hong Kong Hong Kong (CMHK)
  • Pakistan Pakistan (Zong)
  • Thailand Thailand (Truemove H)
  • United Kingdom United Kingdom (CMLink)
List
 898.5[1]
(March 2018) 		Government of the People's Republic of China (74.25%)
Public stock (25.75%)
2 United Kingdom Vodafone
List
List
 516.0[2]
(March 2017)
3 India Airtel
List
List
 395.7[3]
(March 2018) 		Bharti Telecom Limited (45.09%)
Public stock (28.16%)
Pastel Limited (14.79%)
Indian Continent Investment Limited (6.65%)
Life Insurance Corporation of India (5.31%)
4 China China Unicom
List
List
 284.1[4]
(December 2017) 		China Unicom Limited (40.92%)
China Netcom Group (29.49%)
Telefonica (9.7%)
5 Mexico América Móvil
List
List
 280.4[5]
(September 2017)
6 Spain Telefónica
List
List
 272.7[6]
(September 2017)
7 China China Telecom
List
List
 250.0[7]
(December 2017)
8 Netherlands Veon
List
List
 240.1[8]
(September 2017) 		Letterone Investment Holdings S.A. (47.9%)
Telenor (33%)
Public stock (10.8%)
Stichting Administratiekantoor Mobile Telecommunications Investor (8.3%)
9 South Africa MTN Group
List
  • Afghanistan Afghanistan
  • Benin Benin
  • Botswana Botswana
  • Cameroon Cameroon
  • Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo
  • Ivory Coast Cote d'Ivoire
  • Cyprus Cyprus
  • Ghana Ghana
  • Guinea Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau
  • Iran Iran (49%)
  • Liberia Liberia
  • Nigeria Nigeria
  • Rwanda Rwanda
  • South Africa South Africa
  • Sudan Sudan
  • Eswatini Swaziland (30%)
  • Syria Syria
  • Uganda Uganda
  • Yemen Yemen
  • Zambia Zambia
List
 230.2[9]
(September 2017) 		Public stock (68.02%)
Government Employees Pension Fund (17.23%)
M1 (7.72%)
10 France Orange
List
List
 207.7[10]
(September 2017) 		Public stock (86.6%)
Government of France (13.4%)
11 India Reliance Jio
List
List
 186.6[11]

(31st March 2018)

Reliance Industries
12 Norway Telenor
List
List
 175.8[12]
(September 2017) 		Government of Norway (53,97%)
Public stock (41,74%)
The Government Pension Fund of Norway (4,79%)
13 Indonesia Telkomsel
List
List
 173.9[13]
(December 2016) 		PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (65%)
Singtel (35%)
14 Germany Deutsche Telekom
List
List
 165.0
(Company annual reportJune 2017) 		Free float (68.2%)
Federal Republic of Germany (31.8%)
15 Saudi Arabia STC
List
  • Bahrain Bahrain (VIVA)
  • Indonesia Indonesia
  • Jordan Jordan
  • Kuwait Kuwait (VIVA)
  • Lebanon Lebanon
  • Malaysia Malaysia (Maxis (25%))
  • Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia
  • South Africa South Africa
List
 161.0[14]
(December 2016)
16 United Arab Emirates Etisalat
List
  • Afghanistan Afghanistan
  • Benin Benin
  • Central African Republic Central African Republic
  • Egypt Egypt
  • Gabon Gabon
  • Indonesia Indonesia (XL Axiata (13.3%))
  • Ivory Coast Ivory Coast
  • Niger Niger
  • Nigeria Nigeria (40%)
  • Pakistan Pakistan (26%)
  • Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (27%)
  • Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (Etisalat Lanka)
  • Sudan Sudan
  • Tanzania Tanzania
  • Togo Togo
  • United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates
List
 159.0[15]
(March 2017) 		Emirates Investment Authority (60.03%)
Public stock (39,97%)
17 Qatar Ooredoo
List
List
 149.0[16]
(March 2017)
18 United States Verizon Wireless
List
List
 148.9[17]
(September 2017) 		Verizon Communications
19 United States AT&T Mobility
List
  • Mexico México
  • Puerto Rico Puerto Rico
  • United States United States
  • United States Virgin Islands United States Virgin Islands
List
 138.8[18]
(September 2017) 		AT&T Inc.
20 Russia MTS
List
List
 108.8[19]
(March 2017) 		Sistema (50.8%)
21 India BSNL
List
List
 108.3
(31st January 2018)[20] 		Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.
22 Hong Kong 3
List
List
 101.9[21](2015) CK Hutchison Holdings
23 Malaysia Axiata
List
List
 101.0[22]
(December 2015) 		Public stock (54.91%)
Government of Malaysia (45.09%)
24 Italy TIM
List
  • Brazil Brazil (TIM)
  • Italy Italy (TIM)
  • San Marino San Marino (TIM)
  • Vatican City Vatican City (TIM)
List
 92.8[23]
(September 2016) 		Telecom Italia
25 Russia MegaFon
List
  • Russia Russia (MegaFon)
  • Tajikistan Tajikistan (MegaFon Tajikistan)
List
 77.3[24]
(September 2016) 		USM Holdings Limited (56.32%+3,92%)
Telia Company (25.17%)
Public stock (14,59%)
26 Iran Hamrahe Aval(MCI)
List
List
 65.0[25]
(December 2016) 		Telecommunication Company of Iran (90%)
Public stock (10%)
27 Philippines Globe Telecom
List
List
 62.8[26]
(December 2016) 		Asiacom (54,5%)
Singtel (21,5%)
Ayala Corporation (13,9%)
Public stock (10,2%)
28 Philippines PLDT
List
List
 61.8[27]
(September 2016)
29 United StatesSprint Corporation
List
  • Puerto Rico Puerto Rico
  • United States United States
  • United States Virgin Islands United States Virgin Islands
List
 54[28]
(October 2017) 		SoftBank Group (80%)
30 Sweden Telia Company
List
List
 50.1[29]

(December 2016)

Turkcell Holding A.Ş. (51%)
Public stock (34.93%)
Sonera Holding B.V. (14.02%)
Çukurova Holding A.Ş. (0,05%)
31 Thailand AIS
List
  • Thailand Thailand (AIS)
List
 41.0[30]
(December 2016) 		Intouch Holdings (40,45%)
Public stock (36,23%)
Singtel (23,32%)
32 Russia Tele2 Russia
List
 40.6[31]

(December 2017

33 Indonesia STI
List
List
 21.0
(December 2016)

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)[32]
2 United States Globalstar Proprietary CDMA 0.638 (March 2015)[33]
3 United Arab Emirates Thuraya Proprietary FDMA/GSM 0.260 (December 2007)[34] Etisalat (28%)
4 United Kingdom Inmarsat Proprietary GSM 0.254 (September 2009)[35]
5 Indonesia ACeS Dual-mode Satellite/GSM 0.020 (December 2007)

By region

See also

References

  1. ^ "Operation Data". China Mobile. 30 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Annual Report 2017" (PDF). 31 March 2017.
  3. ^ "Fact Sheet". Airtel. 31 March 2018.
  4. ^ "Operation Data". China Unicom. 31 December 2017.
  5. ^ "3Q 2017 Reports" (PDF). América Móvil. 30 September 2017.
  6. ^ "Report 3Q 2017". 30 September 2017.
  7. ^ "China Telecom Corporation". China Telecom.
  8. ^ "Report 3Q 2017" (PDF). Veon. 30 September 2017.
  9. ^ "3Q Results 2017" (PDF). MTN Group. 30 September 2017.
  10. ^ "Report 3Q 2017" (PDF). 30 September 2017.
  11. ^ "Reliance Jio subscriber base reaches 186.6 million". Hindustan Times. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  12. ^ "3Q 2017 Telenor Group Report" (PDF). 30 September 2017.
  13. ^ "Annual Report 2016" (PDF). 31 December 2016.
  14. ^ "STC Investor Factsheet" (PDF). STC. Retrieved 25 August 2014.[permanent dead link]
  15. ^ "Etisalat 1Q Report 2017". Etisalat. 31 March 2017.
  16. ^ "Q1 2017 Results" (PDF). Ooredoo. 31 March 2017.
  17. ^ "How Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and more stacked up in Q3 2017: The top 7 carriers". FierceWireless. 10 November 2017.
  18. ^ "How Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and more stacked up in Q3 2017: The top 7 carriers". 10 November 2017.
  19. ^ "Results Q1 2017" (PDF). MTS. 31 March 2017.
  20. ^ "January 2018 TRAI Report" (PDF). TRAI. 1 January 2018.
  21. ^ "Operator group ranking, 2015". GSMA intelligence. 28 April 2016.
  22. ^ "Axiata - Annual Report 2015" (PDF).
  23. ^ "Financial Results Q3 2016" (PDF). TIM. 30 September 2016.
  24. ^ "Press Release Q3 2016". MegaFon. 30 September 2016.
  25. ^ "About MCI". MCI. 31 December 2016.
  26. ^ "Report 4Q 2016" (PDF). 31 December 2016.
  27. ^ "Financial highlights 3Q 2016" (PDF). 30 September 2016.
  28. ^ "Quarterly Investor Update" (PDF). Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  29. ^ "Financial highlights 2016". Turkcell. 31 December 2016.
  30. ^ "Operational Highlights 2016". 31 December 2016.
  31. ^ http://www.acm-consulting.com/data-downloads/cat_view/7-cellular/34-cellular-2017.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  32. ^ "Iridium Q2 2016 Results" (PDF). 30 June 2016.
  33. ^ "Globestar Announces Q1 2015 Results". Globalstar.com. 31 March 2015.
  34. ^ [1] Archived 3 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  35. ^ [2] Archived 6 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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