List of mobile network operators

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
List
  •  China (China Mobile)
  •  Hong Kong (CMHK)
  •  Pakistan (Zong)
  •  Thailand (TrueMove H)
  •  United Kingdom (CMLink)
List
 945.50 [1]
(June 2021)		 Government of the People's Republic of China (74.25%)
Public stock (25.75%)
2 Bharti Airtel Limited
List
List
 480 [2]
(September-2021)		 Bharti Enterprises (66.57%)
SingTel (32.15%)
Google (1.28%)
3 Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited
List
List
 406.39 [3]
(January 2022)

Jio Platforms

4 China Telecom Corp., Ltd
List
  • China
  •  Macau
List
 362.49[4]
(June 2021)		 China Telecommunications Corporation (State Owned) (70.89%)
5 Vodafone Group plc
List
List
 315[5][Note 1]
(FY 2021)		[Note 2]
6 China Unicom Limited
List
  • China Unicom
  • CUniq HK
  • CUniq US
  • CUniq UK
List
 310.45[6]
(June 2021)		 China Unicom Limited (40.92%)
China Netcom Group (29.49%)
Telefonica (0.6%)
7 América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V
List
  • Argentina (Claro)
  • Austria (Telekom Austria)
  • Belarus (A1)
  • Brazil (Claro)
  • Bulgaria (A1)
  • Chile (Claro)
  • Colombia (Claro)
  • Costa Rica (Claro)
  • Croatia (A1)
  • Dominican Republic (Claro)
  • Ecuador (Claro)
  • El Salvador (Claro)
  • Guatemala (Claro)
  • Honduras (Claro)
  • Liechtenstein (A1)
  • Mexico (Telcel)
  • Nicaragua (Claro)
  • North Macedonia (A1)
  • Panama (Claro)
  • Paraguay (Claro)
  • Peru (Claro)
  • Puerto Rico (Claro)
  • Serbia (A1)
  • Slovenia (A1 Slovenija)
  • Uruguay (Claro)
List
 297.73[7]
(June 2021)		 Helu Slim (36.50%)
Carlos Slim (6.84%)
Public stock (56.66%)
8 MTN Group Limited
List
  • Afghanistan
  • Benin
  • Botswana
  • Cameroon
  • Republic of the Congo
  • Eswatini (30%)
  • Ghana
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Iran (49%)
  • Ivory Coast
  • Liberia
  • Nigeria
  • Rwanda
  • South Africa
  • South Sudan
  • Sudan
  • Syria
  • Uganda
  • Yemen
  • Zambia
List
 280[8]
(Dec 2020)		 Public stock (60.02%)
Government Employees Pension Fund (25.33%)
M1 (10.05%)
9 Telefónica S.A.
List
  • Argentina (Movistar)
  • Brazil (Vivo)
  • Chile (Movistar)
  • Colombia (Movistar)
  • Ecuador (Movistar)
  • Germany (O2)
  • Mexico (Movistar)
  • Peru (Movistar)
  • Spain (Movistar)
  • Sudan (Sudan Unicom)
  • United Kingdom (O2)
  • Uruguay (Movistar)
  • Venezuela (Movistar)
List
 274.91[9]
(June 2021)
10 Vodafone Idea
List
List
 265.13[3]
(January 2022)		 Government of India (35.8%)
Vodafone Group (28.5%)
Aditya Birla Group (17.8%)
Private equity (17.9%)
11 Orange S.A.
List
List
 259[11]
(2020)		 Public stock (77%)
Government of France (23%)
12 Deutsche Telekom AG
List
List
 246.6[12]
(June 2021)		 Free float (68.1%)
Federal Republic of Germany (31.9%)
13 VEON Ltd.
List
  • Algeria (Djezzy)
  • Bangladesh (Banglalink)
  • Georgia (Beeline)
  • Kazakhstan (Beeline)
  • Kyrgyzstan (Beeline)
  • Pakistan (Jazz)
  • Russia (Beeline)
  • Ukraine (Kyivstar)
  • Uzbekistan (Beeline)
List
 212.7[13]
(Q1 2021)		 Letterone Investment Holdings S.A. (47.9%)
Public stock (43.8%)
Stichting Administratiekantoor Mobile Telecommunications Investor (8.3%)
14 AT&T Inc.
List
List
 191.64[14]
(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%) [15]
15 Telenor ASA
List
List
 170.28[16]
(Q2 2021)		 Government of Norway (53.97%)
Public stock (41.74%)
The Government Pension Fund of Norway (4.79%)
16 PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel)
List
  • Indonesia (Telkomsel)
    East Timor (Telkomcel)
List
 164.69[17]
(Q1 2021)		 Telkom Indonesia (65%)
Singtel (35%)
17 Axiata Group Berhad
List
List
 157[18][19]
(2020)		 Public stock (54.91%)
Government of Malaysia (45.09%)
18 Emirates Telecommunication
Group Company PJSC (Etisalat)
List
  • Afghanistan
  • Benin
  • Burkina Faso
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Egypt
  • Gabon
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Mali
  • Mauritania
  • Morocco
  • Niger
  • Pakistan (26%)
  • Saudi Arabia (27%)
  • Togo
  • United Arab Emirates
List
 154[20]
(2020)		 Emirates Investment Authority (60.03%)
Public stock (39.97%)
19 Verizon Wireless
List
List
 120.85[21]
(April 2021)		 Verizon Communications
20 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
List
List
 113.98 [3]
(January 2022)[Note 4][22]		 Government of India
21 Ooredoo QSC
List
List
 117.6[25]
(April 2021)		 Government of Qatar
22 Viettel Group
List
  • Burundi (Lumitel)
  • Cambodia (Metfone)
  • Cameroon (Nexttel)
  • East Timor (Telemor)
  • Haiti (Natcom)
  • Laos (Unitel)
  • Mozambique (Movitel)
  • Myanmar (Mytel)
  • Peru (Bitel)
  • Tanzania (Halotel)
  • Vietnam
List
 110.0[26]
(December 2018)		 Government of Vietnam
23 CKH Group Telecom
List
List
 98.49[27](2020) CK Hutchison Holdings
24 MCI Hamrahe Aval
List
  • Iran
List
 92.46[28]
(April 2020)		 TCI (94.09%)
Sukuk (5.91%)
25 Mobile TeleSystems (MTS)
List
  • Russia (MTS)
  • Armenia (VivaCell-MTS)
  • Belarus (MTS)
List
 84.9[29]
(Q1 2021)		 Sistema (50.8%)
26 NTT Docomo Inc.
List
  • Japan
List
 82.63[30]
(May 2021)		 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
27 Globe Telecom Inc.
List
  • Philippines
List
 79.8[31]
(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 PLDT Inc.
List
List
 71.8[32]
(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 MegaFon
List
  • Russia
  • Tajikistan
List
 70.5[33]
(Q1 2021)		 AF Telecom Holding LLC (56.32%)
USM Telecom LLC (43.68%)
30 KDDI
List
  • Japan (Au)
List
 60.56[34]
(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.

RankOperatorTechnologySubscribers
(in millions)		Ownership
1 IridiumProprietary TDMA0.824 (June 2016)[35]
2 GlobalstarProprietary CDMA0.638 (March 2015)[36]
3 ThurayaProprietary FDMA/GSM0.260 (December 2007)[37]Etisalat (28%)
4 InmarsatProprietary GSM0.254 (September 2009)[38]
5 ACeSDual-mode Satellite/GSM0.020 (December 2007)

By region

See also

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

References
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  2. "Quarterly IR Pack Bharti Airtel Consolidated" (PDF). bharti airtel. 31 December 2020. p. 3. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  3. "TRAI subscription data" (PDF). January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "China Telecom Corporation". China Telecom. 7 July 2020.
  5. "Quarterly Results" (PDF). Vodafone Group plc. 3 February 2021. p. 7.
  6. "Operation Data". China Unicom. 7 September 2020.
  7. "3Q 2020 Reports" (PDF). América Móvil. 20 October 2020.
  8. "Q3 Report September 2020" (PDF). MTN Group. 6 September 2020.
  9. "January–December FY 2020 Report". December 2020. p. 8.
  10. "Non-controlling equity interest: Iraq". Orange. Archived from the original on 25 February 2020.
  11. "Press Report 3Q 2020" (PDF). 29 October 2020. p. 15.
  12. "3Q 2020 Report". 12 November 2020. p. 2.
  13. "Report 3Q 2020" (PDF). Veon. 29 October 2020.
  14. "AT&T 3Q Financial Report" (PDF). investors.att.com. p. 7. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  15. "AT&T INC. Ownership summary| NASDAQ". www.nasdaq.com. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  16. "3Q 2020 Telenor ASA Group Report" (PDF). 21 October 2020. p. 1.
  17. "Telkom Indonesia Q1 2021 financial results" (PDF). June 2021. p. 12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. "Axiata 4th Quarter 2019 Financials" (PDF).
  19. "Axiata 4Q19 Data Financials".
  20. "Etisalat 2Q Report 2020" (PDF). p. 4. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  21. "Verizon Q1 2021". www.verizon.com. Retrieved 1 July 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  22. "MTNL to be act as BSNL subsidiary Till Merger Complete". The Hindu. 29 June 2019.
  23. "Government approves Revival package for BSNL, MTNL". Economic Times. 23 October 2019.
  24. "BSNL, MTNL to be merged, along with special package". India Today. 23 October 2019.
  25. "Q1 2021 Results" (PDF). Ooredoo. April 2021. p. 12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  26. "Viettel to become a digital service provider this year". Viettel Group. 14 December 2019.
  27. "Customer base, 2019" (PDF). CK Hutchison Holdings Limited. 19 March 2020.
  28. 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.
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  30. "NTT FY2020" (PDF). 12 May 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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  33. "KPI Q1 2020". MegaFon. 28 May 2020.
  34. "KDDI FY2021". 12 September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  35. "Iridium Q2 2016 Results" (PDF). 30 June 2016.
  36. "Globestar Announces Q1 2015 Results". Globalstar.com. 31 March 2015.
  37. "Thuraya Launches SMS Info Service with CNN" (Press release). Thuraya. 27 November 2007. Archived from the original on 3 January 2010.
  38. "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.
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