List of MNOs

List of mobile network operators

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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[edit]

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 		932.07[1]
(May 2019) 		Government of the People's Republic of China (74.25%)
Public stock (25.75%)
2 India Bharti Airtel Limited 384.07 [2] [3] [4]
(April 2019) 		Bharti Enterprises (64%)

SingTel (36%)

3 India Vodafone Idea Limited 334.10 [5] [4]
(April 2019) 		Vodafone Group (45.2%)
Aditya Birla Group (26%)
Public stock (28.8%)
4 China China Unicom Limited 324.32[6]
(May 2019) 		China Unicom Limited (40.92%)
China Netcom Group (29.49%)
Telefonica (9.7%)
5 China China Telecom Corp., Ltd 318.56[7]
(May 2019) 		China Telecommunications Corporation (State Owned) (70.89%)
6 India Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited 314.80[4] [8]
(April 2019) 		Reliance Industries
7 Mexico América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V 277.42[9]
(March 2019) 		Helu Slim (36.50%)
Carlos Slim (6.84%)
Public stock (56.66%)
8 South Africa MTN Group Limited 236.6[10]
(March 2019) 		Public stock (68.02%)
Government Employees Pension Fund (17.23%)
M1 (7.72%)
9 Netherlands VEON Ltd. 211.00[11]
(March 2019) 		Letterone Investment Holdings S.A. (47.9%)
Telenor (33%)
Public stock (10.8%)
Stichting Administratiekantoor Mobile Telecommunications Investor (8.3%)
10 France Orange S.A. 203.78[13]
(March 2019) 		Public stock (86.6%)
Government of France (13.4%)
11 United Kingdom Vodafone Group plc [Note 1] 191.90[14][Note 2][15]
(March 2019)
12 Germany Deutsche Telekom AG 179.10[16]
(March 2019) 		Free float (68.2%)
Federal Republic of Germany (31.8%)
13 Norway Telenor ASA 176.00[17]
(March 2019) 		Government of Norway (53.97%)
Public stock (41.74%)
The Government Pension Fund of Norway (4.79%)
14 Indonesia Telkomsel (PT Telekomunikasi Selular) 163.0[18]
(December 2018) 		PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (65%)
Singtel (35%)
15 Saudi Arabia Saudi Telecom Company 161.0[19]
(December 2016)
16 United States Verizon Wireless 153.9[20]
(November 2018) 		Verizon Communications
17 United States AT&T Inc. 150.2[21]
(November 2018) 		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%) [22]
18 Malaysia Axiata Group Berhad 149.0[23] [24]
(December 2018) 		Public stock (54.91%)
Government of Malaysia (45.09%)
19 United Arab Emirates Emirates Telecommunication

Group Company PJSC (Etisalat)

143.00[25]
(March 2019) 		Emirates Investment Authority (60.03%)
Public stock (39.97%)
20 Spain Telefónica S.A. 124.8[26]
(March 2019)
21 India BSNL MOBILE

(Formerly CellOne)

115.89[4]
(April 2019) 		Government of India
22 Qatar Ooredoo QSC 112.14[27]
(March 2019)
23 Hong Kong 3 Group Europe 112.2[28](2018) CK Hutchison Holdings
24 Russia Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) 104.7[29]
(May 2019) 		Sistema (50.8%)
25 Philippines Globe Telecom Inc. 83.5[30]
(March 2019) 		Asiacom (54.5%)
Singtel (21.5%)
Ayala Corporation (13.9%)
Public stock (10.2%)
26 Russia MegaFon 76.9[31]
(December 2018) 		USM Holdings Limited (56.32%+3.92%)
Telia Company (25.17%)
Public stock (14.59%)
27 Iran Mobile Telecommunication
Company of Iran(Hamrahe Aval) 		65.0[32]
(December 2016) 		Telecommunication Company of Iran (90%)
Public stock (10%)
28 Philippines PLDT Inc. 63.94[33]
(March 2019)
29 United States Sprint Corporation 53.6[34]
(March 2018) 		SoftBank Group (80%)
30 Kuwait Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.C.P. (Zain Group) 49.0[35](December 2018) Public stock (48.45%)
Kuwait Investment Authority (24.6%)
Oman Telecommunications (21.9%)
Nohoudh Development Trading & Contracting co. (5.05%)

Satellite based[edit]

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[edit]

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ^ Vodafone Australia does not offer GSM, GPRS and EDGE.
  2. ^ After subtracting 334.1 million subscribers of Vodafone Idea Limited as per Vodafone Idea Ltd. march 2019 Q4 report shows telecom subscription data since Vodafone India has merged with Idea Cellular Limited to form Vodafone Idea Limited.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Monthly Customer Data". China Mobile. 20 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Quarterly report on the results for the Fourth quarter FY 2019" (PDF). airtel africa. 31 March 2019. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
  3. ^ "Q4 Results Bharti airtel limited" (PDF). bharti airtel. 30 May 2019. p. 3. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d "Press Release on Telecom Subscription Data as on 30 April, 2019" (PDF). Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. 24 June 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  5. ^ "Q4-Report-FY2019 By Vodafone Idea Limited" (PDF). Vodafone idea Limited. 14 May 2019. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
  6. ^ "Operation Data". China Unicom. 20 June 2019.
  7. ^ "China Telecom Corporation". China Telecom.
  8. ^ "RIL Q4 2019 Reports". Reliance industries. 14 May 2019.
  9. ^ "Q1 2019 Reports" (PDF). América Móvil. 14 May 2019.
  10. ^ "Q1 Results 2019" (PDF). MTN Group. 31 March 2019.
  11. ^ "Report 1Q 2019" (PDF). Veon. 2 May 2019.
  12. ^ https://www.orange.com/en/Group/Orange-in-the-world/countries/Non-controlling-equity-interest-Iraq
  13. ^ "Press Report 1Q 2019" (PDF). 31 March 2019. p. 5.
  14. ^ "Annual Report 2019" (PDF). Vodafone Group plc. 31 March 2019. p. 4.
  15. ^ "Merger of Idea Cellular and Vodafone India completed - creating India's largest telecom service provider" (PDF). Idea. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  16. ^ "1Q 2019 Report" (PDF). 31 March 2019. p. 2.
  17. ^ "1Q 2019 Telenor ASA Group Report" (PDF). 31 March 2019. p. 6.
  18. ^ "Annual Report 2018 by Parent Company Telecom Indonesia" (PDF). 31 December 2018. p. 18.
  19. ^ "STC Investor Factsheet" (PDF). STC. Retrieved 25 August 2014.[permanent dead link]
  20. ^ "How Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and more stacked up in Q3 2018: The top 7 carriers | FierceWireless". www.fiercewireless.com. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
  21. ^ "How Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and more stacked up in Q3 2018: The top 7 carriers | FierceWireless". www.fiercewireless.com. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
  22. ^ "AT&T INC. Ownership summary| NASDAQ". www.nasdaq.com. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  23. ^ "Axiata - Integrated Annual Report 2018".
  24. ^ "Axiata Key Performance Report 2018" (PDF).
  25. ^ "Etisalat 1Q Report 2019". Etisalat. 31 March 2019.
  26. ^ "January-March FY 2019 QTR Report". 14 May 2019. p. 6.
  27. ^ "Q1 2019 Results" (PDF). Ooredoo. 31 March 2019.
  28. ^ "Operator group ranking, 2018" (PDF). GSMA intelligence. 26 July 2018.
  29. ^ "Results Q1 2019" (PDF). MTS. May 2019.
  30. ^ "Report 1Q 2019" (PDF). 3 May 2019.
  31. ^ "Press Release Q4 2018". MegaFon. 21 March 2019.
  32. ^ "About MCI". MCI. 31 December 2016.
  33. ^ "Financial highlights 1Q 2019" (PDF). 9 May 2019.
  34. ^ "Q1 2018 Results". Sprint. 31 March 2018.
  35. ^ "Key Performance report". Zain Group. 25 May 2019.
  36. ^ "Iridium Q2 2016 Results" (PDF). 30 June 2016.
  37. ^ "Globestar Announces Q1 2015 Results". Globalstar.com. 31 March 2015.
  38. ^ [1] Archived 3 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  39. ^ [2] Archived 6 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine

 

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