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 		946.34 [1]
(October 2020) 		Government of the People's Republic of China (74.25%)
Public stock (25.75%)
3 India Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited 405.6 [2][3]
(September 2020)

Jio Platforms

4 China China Telecom Corp., Ltd 350.16[4]
(October 2020) 		China Telecommunications Corporation (State Owned) (70.89%)
2 India Bharti Airtel Limited 320.60 [5][2]
(September 2020) 		Bharti Enterprises (64%)

SingTel (36%)

5 China China Unicom Limited 309.18[6]
(September 2020) 		China Unicom Limited (40.92%)
China Netcom Group (29.49%)
Telefonica (0.6%)
6 United Kingdom Vodafone Group plc [Note 1] 285.0[7][Note 2]
(November 2020)
7 Mexico 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%)
8 South Africa MTN Group Limited 273.44[9]
(September 2020) 		Public stock (60.02%)
Government Employees Pension Fund (25.33%)
M1 (10.05%)
9 India Vodafone Idea Limited 271.8[2]
(October 2020) 		Vodafone Group (44.4%)
Aditya Birla Group (26.0%)
Axiata Group Berhad (8.17%)
Private equity (20.73%)
10 Spain Telefónica S.A. 260.88[10]
(October 2020)
11 France Orange S.A. 211.86[12]
(October 2020) 		Public stock (77%)
Government of France (23%)
12 Netherlands 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 Germany Deutsche Telekom AG 199.71[14]
(September 2020) 		Free float (68.1%)
Federal Republic of Germany (31.9%)
14 Norway 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 United States 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 Indonesia Telkomsel (PT Telekomunikasi Selular) 162.57[18]
(July 2020) 		PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (65%)
Singtel (35%)
17 United Arab Emirates Emirates Telecommunication
Group Company PJSC (Etisalat) 		146.10[19]
(July 2020) 		Emirates Investment Authority (60.03%)
Public stock (39.97%)
18 Malaysia Axiata Group Berhad 145.84[20][21]
(February 2020) 		Public stock (54.91%)
Government of Malaysia (45.09%)
19 India Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited 123.42 [2]
(May 2020)[Note 4][22] 		Government of India
20 United States Verizon Wireless 120.32[25]
(October 2020) 		Verizon Communications
21 Qatar Ooredoo QSC 118.32[26]
(April 2020)
22 Vietnam Viettel Group 110.0[27]
(December 2018) 		Government of Vietnam
23 Hong Kong CKH Group Telecom 98.49[28](2020) CK Hutchison Holdings
24 Philippines Globe Telecom Inc. 89.32[29]
(May 2020) 		Asiacom (54.5%)
Singtel (21.5%)
Ayala Corporation (13.9%)
Public stock (10.2%)
25 Russia Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) 84.90[30]
(August 2020) 		Sistema (50.8%)
26 Japan NTT Docomo Inc. 79.67[31]
(December 2019) 		Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
27 Russia MegaFon 75.10[32]
(May 2020) 		AF Telecom Holding LLC (56.32%)
USM Telecom LLC (43.68%)
28 Philippines PLDT Inc. 73.08[33]
(May 2020)
29 Italy TIM 54.5[34]
(September 2019)
30 Nigeria Globacom Limited 52.42[35][36]
(December 2019)

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)[37]
2 United States Globalstar Proprietary CDMA 0.638 (March 2015)[38]
3 United Arab Emirates Thuraya Proprietary FDMA/GSM 0.260 (December 2007)[39] Etisalat (28%)
4 United Kingdom Inmarsat Proprietary GSM 0.254 (September 2009)[40]
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. ^ 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.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Monthly Customer Data". China Mobile. 7 July 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d "Sequential improvement in Q2 as lockdown started to ease; VIL's GIGAnetnow the fastest 4G network in the country" (PDF). 29 October 2020.
  3. ^ "Financial and Operational Performance of Jio Platforms Limited Q1 2020-2021 Report". Reliance industries. 30 July 2020.
  4. ^ "China Telecom Corporation". China Telecom. 7 July 2020.
  5. ^ "Q2-Report-FY 2020-21 Bharti airtel limited" (PDF). bharti airtel. 30 September 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  6. ^ "Operation Data". China Unicom. 7 September 2020.
  7. ^ "Quarterly Results" (PDF). Vodafone Group plc. 16 November 2020. p. 7.
  8. ^ "3Q 2020 Reports" (PDF). América Móvil. 20 October 2020.
  9. ^ "Q3 Report September 2020" (PDF). MTN Group. 6 September 2020.
  10. ^ "January-September FY 2020 QTR Report". 29 October 2020. p. 8.
  11. ^ https://www.orange.com/en/Group/Orange-in-the-world/countries/Non-controlling-equity-interest-Iraq
  12. ^ "Press Report 3Q 2020" (PDF). 29 October 2020. p. 15.
  13. ^ "Report 3Q 2020" (PDF). Veon. 29 October 2020.
  14. ^ "3Q 2020 Report". 12 November 2020. p. 2.
  15. ^ "3Q 2020 Telenor ASA Group Report" (PDF). 21 October 2020. p. 1.
  16. ^ "AT&T 3Q Financial Report" (PDF). investors.att.com. p. 7. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  17. ^ "AT&T INC. Ownership summary| NASDAQ". www.nasdaq.com. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  18. ^ "Telkom Indonesia Q1 2020 financial results" (PDF). 1 July 2020. p. 12.
  19. ^ "Etisalat 2Q Report 2020" (PDF). p. 4. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  20. ^ "Axiata 4th Quarter 2019 Financials" (PDF).
  21. ^ "Axiata 4Q19 Data Financials".
  22. ^ a b "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. ^ "Verizon Q3 2020". www.verizon.com. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  26. ^ "Q1 2020 Results" (PDF). Ooredoo. 29 April 2020. p. 12.
  27. ^ "Viettel to become a digital service provider this year". Viettel Group. 14 December 2019.
  28. ^ "Customer base, 2019" (PDF). CK Hutchison Holdings Limited. 19 March 2020.
  29. ^ "Report 1Q 2020" (PDF). 5 May 2020. p. 3.
  30. ^ "Q2 2020 Results" (PDF). MTS. 19 August 2020. p. 3.
  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.
  35. ^ "Glo mobile Subscriber Nigeria". NCC Nigeira. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  36. ^ "Glo mobile Subscriber Ghana" (PDF). NCA Ghana. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  37. ^ "Iridium Q2 2016 Results" (PDF). 30 June 2016.
  38. ^ "Globestar Announces Q1 2015 Results". Globalstar.com. 31 March 2015.
  39. ^ [1] Archived 3 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  40. ^ [2] Archived 6 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine

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