33 Largest Mobile Network Operators in the World
The Mobile Phones are popular and can access everywhere, the largest mobile network operators in the world listed here with helpful details. The Countries with the high population like China, India and United Nations based large Mobile Network Companies and that has services in other countries too. The China Mobile is the largest Mobile Network Operator in the world with over 744 million Subscribers on the data of 2013. Vodafone is the second largest mobile operator with over 453 million users as on 2013, and Bharti Airtel has around 266 million users and hold third position after China Mobile and Vodafone. China, India and China has huge mobile users compared to other countries, the Mobile Service Companies providing services on GSM, CDMA, GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA and uses other latest technologies. The Mobile Network operators total users are updated on latest and official sources of Data.
| Rank | Company | Technology | Total subscribers (in millions) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China Mobile | GSM GPRS EDGE TD-SCDMA TD-HSDPA TD-LTE (planned), FD-LTE (Hong Kong only) | 744.9(July 2013) |
| 2 | Vodafone | GSM GPRS EDGE HSPA LTE | 453.633(June 2013) |
| 3 | Bharti Airtel | GSM EDGE HSPA LTE | 265.58(October 2012) |
| 4 | America Movil | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSPA+ LTE D-AMPS CDMAOne CDMA2000 1x EV-DO | 251.8(June 2012) |
| 5 | Telefonica | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSDPA LTE (planned) D-AMPS CDMAOne CDMA2000 | 249.26(December 2012) |
| 6 | Orange | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSDPA HSUPA LTE (planned) | 231.5 (30 June 2013) |
| 7 | Axiata | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSDPA HSPA+ LTE | 229.6(Q2 2013) |
| 8 | VimpelCom Ltd. | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSDPA LTE (planning) | 209(March 2012) |
| 9 | China Unicom | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSDPA HSUPA HSPA+ LTE (Planned) | 202.89(January 2011) |
| 10 | MTN Group | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSDPA HSUPA | 175.98(June 2012) |
| 11 | China Telecom | CDMA EV-DO TD-LTE | 174.50(August 2013) |
| 12 | Etisalat | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSDPA LTE | 167(December 2011) |
| 13 | TeliaSonera | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSDPA LTE | 160(December 2010, includes MegaFon and TurkCell) |
| 14 | Telenor | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSDPA LTE | 150(October 2011) |
| 15 | Saudi Telecom Company (STC) | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSDPA LTE | 139(December 2010) |
| 16 | Reliance Communications | CDMA GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSDPA HSPA+ LTE CDMA2000 CDMA2000 1x EVDO | 135.88(August 2012) |
| 17 | T-Mobile | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSPA HSPA+ DC-HSPA+ LTE | 129.14(March 2012) |
| 18 | Verizon Wireless | CDMA EV-DO LTE | 115.78 |
| 19 | Idea Cellular | GSM GPRS EDGE HSPA | 113.9(December 2012) |
| 20 | AT&T Mobility | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSDPA HSUPA LTE | 107.0(January 2013) |
| 21 | MTS | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS CDMA | 106.07(December 2011) |
| 22 | Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSDPA LTE | 102.50(December 2011) |
| 23 | Telkomsel | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSDPA HSPA+ LTE (planned) | 100(April 2011) |
| 24 | BSNL | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSDPA CDMA EV-DO WiMAX | 96.28(October 2012) |
| 25 | Tata Teleservices | GSM GPRS EDGE HSPA+ CDMA EV-DO WiMAX | 77.4(July 2011) |
| 26 | Turkcell | GSM GPRS PDC FOMA HSDPA LTE (planned) | 70.7(Q3 2013) |
| 27 | Aircel | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSPA HSDPA WiMAX | 66.79(October 2012) |
| 28 | PLDT | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSPA HSPA+ HSDPA WiMAX LTE | 66.1(March 2012) |
| 29 | Maxis Communications | GSM GPRS EDGE WCDMA HSPA HSPA+ LTE (in testing phase) | 63.71(December 2010) |
| 30 | MegaFon | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSDPA | 62 (October 2012) |
| 31 | Qtel | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSDPA / CDMA EV-DO | 60.53 (December 2009) |
| 32 | Sprint | CDMA EV-DO WiMax LTE | 64.3 (October 2013) |
| 33 | Tele2 | GSM GPRS EDGE UMTS HSPA LTE | 37.6 (March 2012) |
