List of telephone operating companies
World's largest telecom companies by total revenue[edit]
The world's largest telecommunications companies measured by total revenues.
Note: When $USD revenues unavailable from reliable sites, currency conversions for 2018-2020 revenues are based on the closing currency exchange rate on the last day of 2018-2020 (December 31).
List of mobile network operators
Terrestrial[edit]
This is a list of the world's thirty largest terrestrial mobile phone network operators measured by number of subscriptions.
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| 1 |  China MobileCommunications Corporation |
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945.50 [1] (June 2021) |
Government of the People's Republic of China (74.25%) Public stock (25.75%) |
| 2 |  Bharti Airtel Limited |
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442.03 [2] (June-2021) |
Bharti Enterprises (64%)
SingTel (36%) |
| 3 | Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited |
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436.69 [3][4] (June 2021) |
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| 4 | China Telecom Corp., Ltd |
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362.49[5] (June 2021) |
China Telecommunications Corporation (State Owned) (70.89%) |
| 5 |  Vodafone Group plc |
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315[6][Note 2] (FY 2021) |
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| 6 | China Unicom Limited |
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310.45[7] (June 2021) |
China Unicom Limited (40.92%) China Netcom Group (29.49%) Telefonica (0.6%) |
| 7 |  América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V |
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297.73[8] (June 2021) |
Helu Slim (36.50%) Carlos Slim (6.84%) Public stock (56.66%) |
| 8 |  MTN Group Limited |
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280[9] (Dec 2020) |
Public stock (60.02%) Government Employees Pension Fund (25.33%) M1 (10.05%) |
| 9 |  Telefónica S.A. |
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274.91[10] (June 2021) |
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| 10 | Vodafone Idea Limited |
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273.33[3] (June 2021) |
Vodafone Group (44.4%) Aditya Birla Group (26.0%) Axiata Group Berhad (8.17%) Private equity (20.73%) |
| 11 |  Orange S.A. |
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259[12] (2020) |
Public stock (77%) Government of France (23%) |
| 12 |  Deutsche Telekom AG |
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246.6[13] (June 2021) |
Free float (68.1%) Federal Republic of Germany (31.9%) |
| 13 |  VEON Ltd. |
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212.7[14] (Q1 2021) |
Letterone Investment Holdings S.A. (47.9%) Public stock (43.8%) Stichting Administratiekantoor Mobile Telecommunications Investor (8.3%) |
| 14 |  AT&T Inc. |
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191.64[15] (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%) Grode Captital Management, LLC (2.52%) [16] |
| 15 |  Telenor ASA |
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170.28[17] (Q2 2021) |
Government of Norway (53.97%) Public stock (41.74%) The Government Pension Fund of Norway (4.79%) |
| 16 |  PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel) |
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164.69[18] (Q1 2021) |
PT Telkom Indonesia (65%) Singtel (35%) |
| 17 |  Axiata Group Berhad |
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157[19][20] (2020) |
Public stock (54.91%) Government of Malaysia (45.09%) |
| 18 |  Emirates TelecommunicationGroup Company PJSC (Etisalat) |
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154[21] (2020) |
Emirates Investment Authority (60.03%) Public stock (39.97%) |
| 19 | Verizon Wireless |
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120.85[22] (April 2021) |
Verizon Communications |
| 20 | Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited |
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118.69 [3] (June 2021)[Note 4][23] |
Government of India |
| 21 |  Ooredoo QSC |
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117.6[26] (April 2021) |
Government of Qatar |
| 22 |  Viettel Group |
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110.0[27] (December 2018) |
Government of Vietnam |
| 23 |  CKH Group Telecom |
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98.49[28](2020) | CK Hutchison Holdings |
| 24 |  MCI Hamrahe Aval |
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92.46[29] (April 2020) |
TCI (94.09%) Sukuk (5.91%) |
| 25 |  Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) |
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84.9[30] (Q1 2021) |
Sistema (50.8%) |
| 26 |  NTT Docomo Inc. |
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82.63[31] (May 2021) |
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone |
| 27 |  Grameenphone |
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82.48 (July 2021) |
Telenor (55.8%)|Grameen Telecom (34.2%)| General Public & other Institutions (10%) |
| 28 |  Globe Telecom Inc. |
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79.8[32] (May 2021) |
Asiacom (50.81%) Singtel (20.08%) Public stock (15.65%) |
| 29 | PLDT Inc. |
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71.8[33] (May 2021) |
Public (41.55%) NTT Docomo (14.5%) Philippine Telecommunications Investment Corp. (12.05%) Metro Pacific Resources, Inc. (9.98%) NTT Communications Corp (5.85%) First Pacific (3.54%) |
| 30 | MegaFon |
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70.5[34] (Q1 2021) |
AF Telecom Holding LLC (56.32%) USM Telecom LLC (43.68%) |
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 |
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| 1 | Iridium |
Proprietary TDMA | 0.824 (June 2016)[35] | |
| 2 | Globalstar |
Proprietary CDMA | 0.638 (March 2015)[36] | |
| 3 | Thuraya |
Proprietary FDMA/GSM | 0.260 (December 2007)[37] | Etisalat (28%) |
| 4 | Inmarsat |
Proprietary GSM | 0.254 (September 2009)[38] | |
| 5 | ACeS |
Dual-mode Satellite/GSM | 0.020 (December 2007) |
来自:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_telephone_operating_companies