Rank

Company

Main Markets China[show]

Technology GSM, GPRS, EDGE[show]

Proportionate Total subscribers subscribers

(in millions) (in millions)

Ownership Government of the PRC (74.25%)[show]

China 1 Mobile 2 Vodafone Telefnica / Movistar / O2

564.356 [1]
(September 2010)

United Kingdom GSM, GPRS, (Vodafone UK)[show] EDGE[show] Spain ()[show] Mexico (Telcel)[show] GSM, GPRS, EDGE[show] GSM, GPRS, EDGE[show] GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA

323.27 [2]
(September 2009)

427.99* [2]
(September 2009)

278 [3]
(June 2010)

Amrica 4 Mvil 5

215.06 [4]
(June 2010)

India (Bharti Bharti Airtel Airtel)[show]

200 [5]
(October 2010)

Bharti (64.76%)[show]

Telenor

Norway (Telenor GSM, GPRS, EDGE[show] Norway)[show] France (Orange France)[show] Germany (Telekom.de)[show] Sweden[show] GSM, GPRS, EDGE[show] GSM, GPRS, EDGE[show] GSM, GPRS, EDGE[show] GSM, GPRS, EDGE[show] GSM, GPRS, EDGE[show] GSM, GPRS, EDGE[show] GSM, GPRS, EDGE[show] CDMA, GPRS[show] 93.8 [7]
(September 2009)

184.00 [6]
(June 2010, including VimpelCom)

Orange

182.0 [7]
(June 2010)

France Tlcom (100%)

150.90 [8]
(September 2009)

T-Mobile

Deutsche Telekom (100%)

/ 9 TeliaSonera China Unicom

143.9 [9]
(September 2009)

10

China (China Unicom) South Africa[show] Egypt (Mobinil)[show] United Arab Emirates ()[show] India ()[show]

156.962

[10]

(June 2010)

China Unicom (BVI) Limited (state-owned) (40.92%)[show]

137.47 [11]
(September 2010)

11

MTN Group

Orascom 12 Telecom / WIND 13 Etisalat Reliance Communications

126.90 [12]
(September 2010)

Weather Investments[show]

>100 [16]
(February 2010)

14

110.8 (March Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group 2010)

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MTS Verizon Wireless AT&T Mobility

Russia (MTS Russia)[show] USA (Verizon Wireless) USA ()[show]

GSM, GPRS, EDGE[show] cdmaOne[show] GSM, GPRS, EDGE[show] GSM, GPRS, EDGE[show] GSM, GPRS, EDGE[show] GSM, GPRS, EDGE[show]

102.01 [17]
(January 2010)

Sistema

16

Verizon Communications 93.2 (October (55%)[show] 2010) 92.81 [4] AT&T Inc. (October 2010) 89.40 [18]
(Q2 2010)

17

18

Russia (Beeline VimpelCom Russia, GT)[show] Indonesia (Telkomsel) Italy (TIM)[show]

Alfa Group (44,65%)[show]

19

Telkomsel

Telkom Indonesia 88.32 [5] (July (65%)[show] 2010) 71.50 [19]

(September 2009)

Telecom 20 Italia / TIM Axiata 21 Group Berhad

Telefonica (24.5%)

Malaysia GSM, GPRS, (Celcom)(100%)[show] EDGE[show] Turkey (Turkcell)[show] Qatar ()[show] GSM, GPRS, PDC[show] GSM, GPRS, EDGE[show] GSM, GPRS, EDGE[show] GSM, GPRS, EDGE GSM, GPRS, EDGE[show] PHS CDMA, EVDO GSM, CDMA, 3G GSM, GPRS, PDC[show] GSM, GPRS, 33.60 [22]
(December 2009)

67.39(excluded Idea Cellular, Malaysian (93.26%):[show] M1 ) [20]

(June 2010)

22

Turkcell

61.9 [21]
(June 2009)

Turkcell Group[show]

23

Qtel Tata Teleservices Idea Cellular

60.53 [22]
(December 2009)

24

India

72.53 [6](June Tata Group (>50%)[show] 2010) 62.14 [7] (February 2010) 61.00 [8] (February 2010) 74.52 [23](June
2010)

25

India

Aditya Birla Group (49.05%)[show]

26

BSNL China Telecom Vivo

India

Government of India

27

China

28

Brazil Japan (NTT docomo)[show] Malaysia

57.30 [9] (September 2010)

Telefonica[show]

NTT 29 docomo 30 Maxis

56.08 [10] Nippon Telegraph and (March 2010) Telephone 54.64 [11] Ananda Krishnan

Communications (Maxis)[show]

EDGE[show]

[12] (March 2010)

(75%)[show]

[edit] Satellite based

These are the world's 5 largest satellite network operators by number of subscribers. Rank 1 2 3 4 5 Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)

Ownership

Globalstar Proprietary CDMA 0.383 (September 2010)[24] Iridium Proprietary TDMA 0.347 (June 2009)[25] Thuraya Proprietary FDMA/GSM 0.260 (December 2007)[26] Etisalat(28%) Inmarsat Proprietary GSM 0.254 (September 2009)[27] ACeS 0.020 (December 2007)