List of MNOs

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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 		943.59 [1]
(October 2019) 		Government of the People's Republic of China (74.25%)
Public stock (25.75%)
2 India Bharti Airtel Limited 411.42 [2][3][4]
(November 2019) 		Bharti Enterprises (64%)

SingTel (36%)

3 India Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited 369.93 [4][5]
(November 2019) 		Reliance Industries
4 India Vodafone Idea Limited 336.21 [4] [6]
(November 2019) 		Vodafone Group (45.1%)
Aditya Birla Group (26.0%)
Axiata Group Berhad (8.17%)
Private equity (20.73%)
5 China China Telecom Corp., Ltd 332.53[7]
(October 2019) 		China Telecommunications Corporation (State Owned) (70.89%)
6 China China Unicom Limited 322.11[8]
(October 2019) 		China Unicom Limited (40.92%)
China Netcom Group (29.49%)
Telefonica (9.7%)
7 Mexico América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V 277.91[9]
(June 2019) 		Helu Slim (36.50%)
Carlos Slim (6.84%)
Public stock (56.66%)
8 Spain Telefónica S.A. 262.47[10]
(June 2019)
9 South Africa MTN Group Limited 240.00[11]
(June 2019) 		Public stock (68.02%)
Government Employees Pension Fund (17.23%)
M1 (7.72%)
10 Netherlands VEON Ltd. 211.09[12]
(June 2019) 		Letterone Investment Holdings S.A. (47.9%)
Telenor (33%)
Public stock (10.8%)
Stichting Administratiekantoor Mobile Telecommunications Investor (8.3%)
11 France Orange S.A. 206.09[14]
(June 2019) 		Public stock (86.6%)
Government of France (13.4%)
12 United Kingdom Vodafone Group plc [Note 1] 191.90[15][Note 2][16]
(March 2019)
13 Germany Deutsche Telekom AG 179.08[17]
(June 2019) 		Free float (68.2%)
Federal Republic of Germany (31.8%)
14 Norway Telenor ASA 178.03[18]
(June 2019) 		Government of Norway (53.97%)
Public stock (41.74%)
The Government Pension Fund of Norway (4.79%)
15 Indonesia Telkomsel (PT Telekomunikasi Selular) 163.0[19]
(December 2018) 		PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (65%)
Singtel (35%)
16 Saudi Arabia Saudi Telecom Company 161.0[20]
(December 2016)
17 United States Verizon Wireless 153.9[21]
(November 2018) 		Verizon Communications
18 United States AT&T Inc. 150.2[22]
(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%) [23]
19 Malaysia Axiata Group Berhad 149.0[24][25]
(December 2018) 		Public stock (54.91%)
Government of Malaysia (45.09%)
20 United Arab Emirates Emirates Telecommunication
Group Company PJSC (Etisalat) 		143.00[26]
(June 2019) 		Emirates Investment Authority (60.03%)
Public stock (39.97%)
21 India Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited 121.00 [4]
(November 2019)[Note 4][27] 		Government of India (100%)
22 Qatar Ooredoo QSC 115.00[30]
(June 2019)
23 Hong Kong 3 Group Europe 112.2[31](2018) CK Hutchison Holdings
24 Vietnam Viettel Group 110.0[32]
(December 2018) 		Government of Vietnam
25 Russia Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) 104.7[33]
(May 2019) 		Sistema (50.8%)
26 Philippines Globe Telecom Inc. 83.5[34]
(March 2019) 		Asiacom (54.5%)
Singtel (21.5%)
Ayala Corporation (13.9%)
Public stock (10.2%)
27 Russia MegaFon 76.9[35]
(December 2018) 		USM Holdings Limited (56.32%+3.92%)
Telia Company (25.17%)
Public stock (14.59%)
28 Philippines PLDT Inc. 63.94[36]
(March 2019)
29 Italy TIM 54.5[37]
(September 2019)
30 Kuwait Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.C.P. (Zain Group) 49.10[38]
(September 2019) 		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)[39]
2 United States Globalstar Proprietary CDMA 0.638 (March 2015)[40]
3 United Arab Emirates Thuraya Proprietary FDMA/GSM 0.260 (December 2007)[41] Etisalat (28%)
4 United Kingdom Inmarsat Proprietary GSM 0.254 (September 2009)[42]
5 Indonesia ACeS Dual-mode Satellite/GSM 0.020 (December 2007)

By region[edit]

See also[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.
  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[edit]

  1. ^ "Monthly Customer Data". China Mobile. 21 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Quarterly report on the results for the Fourth quarter FY 2019" (PDF). airtel africa. 31 March 2019. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
  3. ^ "Q2 Results Bharti airtel limited" (PDF). bharti airtel. 30 September 2019. p. 2. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d "Press Release on Telecom Subscription Data as on 30 November, 2019" (PDF). Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. 16 January 2020.
  5. ^ "RIL Q2 2019-2020 Report". Reliance industries. 18 October 2019.
  6. ^ "Q2-Report-FY2019-20 By Vodafone Idea Limited" (PDF). Vodafone idea Limited. 30 September 2019. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  7. ^ "China Telecom Corporation". China Telecom. 31 October 2019.
  8. ^ "Operation Data". China Unicom. 21 October 2019.
  9. ^ "2Q 2019 Reports" (PDF). América Móvil. 30 June 2019.
  10. ^ "January-June FY 2019 QTR Report". 27 August 2019. p. 14.
  11. ^ "Q1 Results 2019" (PDF). MTN Group. 30 June 2019.
  12. ^ "Report 2Q 2019" (PDF). Veon. 30 June 2019.
  13. ^ https://www.orange.com/en/Group/Orange-in-the-world/countries/Non-controlling-equity-interest-Iraq
  14. ^ "Press Report 2Q 2019" (PDF). 30 June 2019. p. 6.
  15. ^ "Annual Report 2019" (PDF). Vodafone Group plc. 31 March 2019. p. 4.
  16. ^ "Merger of Idea Cellular and Vodafone India completed - creating India's largest telecom service provider" (PDF). Idea. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  17. ^ "2Q 2019 Report" (PDF). 30 June 2019. p. 2.
  18. ^ "2Q 2019 Telenor ASA Group Report" (PDF). 30 June 2019. p. 6.
  19. ^ "Annual Report 2018 by Parent Company Telecom Indonesia" (PDF). 31 December 2018. p. 18.
  20. ^ "STC Investor Factsheet" (PDF). STC. Retrieved 25 August 2014.[permanent dead link]
  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. ^ "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.
  23. ^ "AT&T INC. Ownership summary| NASDAQ". www.nasdaq.com. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  24. ^ "Axiata - Integrated Annual Report 2018".
  25. ^ "Axiata Key Performance Report 2018" (PDF).
  26. ^ "Etisalat 2Q Report 2019". Etisalat. 30 June 2019.
  27. ^ a b "MTNL to be act as BSNL subsidiary Till Merger Complete". The Hindu. 29 June 2019.
  28. ^ "Government approves Revival package for BSNL, MTNL". Economic Times. 23 October 2019.
  29. ^ "BSNL, MTNL to be merged, along with special package". India Today. 23 October 2019.
  30. ^ "1H 2019 Results" (PDF). Ooredoo. 30 June 2019.
  31. ^ "Operator group ranking, 2018" (PDF). GSMA intelligence. 26 July 2018.
  32. ^ "Viettel to become a digital service provider this year". Viettel Group. 14 December 2019.
  33. ^ "Results Q1 2019" (PDF). MTS. May 2019.
  34. ^ "Report 1Q 2019" (PDF). 3 May 2019.
  35. ^ "Press Release Q4 2018". MegaFon. 21 March 2019.
  36. ^ "Financial highlights 1Q 2019" (PDF). 9 May 2019.
  37. ^ "Financial Results Q3 2019" (PDF). 30 September 2019. p. 12.
  38. ^ "Key Facet sheet Figures nine Months". Zain Group. 30 September 2019.
  39. ^ "Iridium Q2 2016 Results" (PDF). 30 June 2016.
  40. ^ "Globestar Announces Q1 2015 Results". Globalstar.com. 31 March 2015.
  41. ^ [1] Archived 3 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  42. ^ [2] Archived 6 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine

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