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		 946.34 [1]
(October 2020)		 Government of the People's Republic of China (74.25%)
Public stock (25.75%)
2 Bharti Airtel Limited 457.96 [2]
(Dec-2020)		 Bharti Enterprises (64%)

SingTel (36%)

3 Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited 410.8 [3][4]
(December 2020)

Jio Platforms

4 China Telecom Corp., Ltd 350.16[5]
(October 2020)		 China Telecommunications Corporation (State Owned) (70.89%)
5 China Unicom Limited 309.18[6]
(September 2020)		 China Unicom Limited (40.92%)
China Netcom Group (29.49%)
Telefonica (0.6%)
6 Vodafone Idea Limited 289.95[3]
(November 2020)		 Vodafone Group (44.4%)
Aditya Birla Group (26.0%)
Axiata Group Berhad (8.17%)
Private equity (20.73%)
7 Vodafone Group plc [Note 1] 285.0[7][Note 2]
(November 2020)
8 América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V 280.72[8]
(October 2020)		 Helu Slim (36.50%)
Carlos Slim (6.84%)
Public stock (56.66%)
9 MTN Group Limited 273.44[9]
(September 2020)		 Public stock (60.02%)
Government Employees Pension Fund (25.33%)
M1 (10.05%)
10 Telefónica S.A. 260.88[10]
(October 2020)
11 Orange S.A. 211.86[12]
(October 2020)		 Public stock (77%)
Government of France (23%)
12 VEON Ltd. 207.40[13]
(October 2020)		 Letterone Investment Holdings S.A. (47.9%)
Public stock (43.8%)
Stichting Administratiekantoor Mobile Telecommunications Investor (8.3%)
13 Deutsche Telekom AG 199.71[14]
(September 2020)		 Free float (68.1%)
Federal Republic of Germany (31.9%)
14 Telenor ASA 180.30[15]
(October 2020)		 Government of Norway (53.97%)
Public stock (41.74%)
The Government Pension Fund of Norway (4.79%)
15 AT&T Inc. 176.74[16]
(October 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%) [17]
16 PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel) 162.57[18]
(July 2020)		 PT Telkom Indonesia (65%)
Singtel (35%)
17 Emirates Telecommunication
Group Company PJSC (Etisalat)		 146.10[19]
(July 2020)		 Emirates Investment Authority (60.03%)
Public stock (39.97%)
18 Axiata Group Berhad 145.84[20][21]
(February 2020)		 Public stock (54.91%)
Government of Malaysia (45.09%)
19 Verizon Wireless 120.32[22]
(October 2020)		 Verizon Communications
20 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited 122.28 [3]
(October 2020)[Note 4][23]		 Government of India
21 Ooredoo QSC 118.32[26]
(April 2020)
22 Viettel Group 110.0[27]
(December 2018)		 Government of Vietnam
23 CKH Group Telecom 98.49[28](2020) CK Hutchison Holdings
24 Globe Telecom Inc. 89.32[29]
(May 2020)		 Asiacom (54.5%)
Singtel (21.5%)
Ayala Corporation (13.9%)
Public stock (10.2%)
25 Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) 84.90[30]
(August 2020)		 Sistema (50.8%)
26 NTT Docomo Inc. 79.67[31]
(December 2019)		 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
27 MegaFon 75.10[32]
(May 2020)		 AF Telecom Holding LLC (56.32%)
USM Telecom LLC (43.68%)
28 PLDT Inc. 73.08[33]
(May 2020)		 First Pacific (25.57%)
NTT Docomo (20.35%)
JG Summit Holdings (11.27%)
Public (42.15%)
Directors and officers (0.66%)
29 TIM 54.5[34]
(September 2019)
30 Globacom Limited 52.42[35][36]
(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)[37]
2 GlobalstarProprietary CDMA0.638 (March 2015)[38]
3 ThurayaProprietary FDMA/GSM0.260 (December 2007)[39]Etisalat (28%)
4 InmarsatProprietary GSM0.254 (September 2009)[40]
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/vodafone-h1-fy21-results-presentation.pdf
  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 September 2020.
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  9. "Q3 Report September 2020" (PDF). MTN Group. 6 September 2020.
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  13. "Report 3Q 2020" (PDF). Veon. 29 October 2020.
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  31. "NTT 3Q 2019" (PDF). 30 January 2020.
  32. "KPI Q1 2020". MegaFon. 28 May 2020.
  33. "Financial highlights 1Q 2020" (PDF). 7 May 2020.
  34. "Financial Results Q3 2019" (PDF). 30 September 2019. p. 12.
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  38. "Globestar Announces Q1 2015 Results". Globalstar.com. 31 March 2015.
  39. Archived 3 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  40. Archived 6 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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