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 This is a list of mobile phone network operating companies.

World

These are the world's largest mobile network operators, by number of subscribers (and by proportionate subscribers, if the company has holdings in other operators). The largest in the world by turnover is Vodafone.

Rank Company Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Subscribers
(including minority stakes)
1 China Mobile (China) GSM 227.36
2 Vodafone (United Kingdom) UMTS, GSM 165.01 450.90
3 China Unicom (China) GSM, CDMA 121.79
4 T-Mobile (Germany) UMTS, GSM 80.88 120.00
5 América Móvil (Mexico) GSM, TDMA 73.76
6 Telefónica Móviles (Spain) UMTS, GSM, CDMA 69.94 85.27
7 Orange (France) UMTS, GSM 66.74 69.55
8 Cingular (United States) UMTS, GSM, TDMA 54
9 NTT DoCoMo (Japan) PDC, FOMA 50.82
10 Verizon Wireless (United States) CDMA 47.37

Americas

===Argentina=== (as of June 2005) The country had in July 2005 17,924,000 subscribers in total.

Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
movistar GSM 6.73 Telefónica Móviles
CTI Movil GSM 4.92 América Móvil
Personal GSM 4.81 Telecom Argentina
NEXTEL iDEN Sprint Nextel

===Brazil=== (as of July 2005) The country has currently 76,578,970 subscribers in total, or a 41.62% penetration rate.

Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
National operators
Vivo [1] CDMA, TDMA 28.53 Telefónica Móviles and Portugal Telecom
TIM [2] GSM, TDMA 17.18 Telecom Italia
Claro [3] GSM, TDMA 16.44 América Móvil
Regional operators
Oi [4] GSM 8.24 Telemar
Telemig Celular/Amazônia Celular [5] GSM, TDMA 4.24 Telpart
Brasil Telecom GSM [6] GSM 1.50 Brasil Telecom
CTBC [7] GSM, TDMA 0.34
Sercomtel Celular [8] GSM, TDMA 0.08 Londrina city (Paraná)State-owned Sercomtel
Specialized Mobile Radio
NEXTEL [9] iDEN Sprint Nextel

===Canada=== (as of June 2005) The country has currently 15,583,039 subscribers in total.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)
1 Rogers Wireless GSM 5.71
2 Bell Mobility CDMA 4.44
3 TELUS Mobility CDMA 4.15
4 Aliant Mobility CDMA 0.67
5 SaskTel Mobility CDMA 0.32
6 MTS Mobility CDMA 0.30

Chile

The country had in June 2005 10,572,000 subscribers in total.

Operator Technology Ownership
movistar GSM, CDMA, TDMA Telefónica Móviles
Entel PCS GSM Hurtado Vicuña
Smartcom CDMA América Móvil

===Colombia=== (as of June 2005) The country has currently 15,581,389 subscribers in total.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 Comcel GSM, TDMA 9.17 América Móvil
2 movistar GSM, CDMA, TDMA 4.76 Telefónica Móviles
3 Ola GSM 1.65 Empresas Públicas de Medellín and Empresa de Teléfonos de Bogotá

===Ecuador=== (as of July 2005) The country has currently 4,888,797 subscribers in total.

Rank Operator technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 Porta GSM, TDMA 3.22 América Móvil
2 movistar CDMA, TDMA 1.67 Telefónica Móviles

===Mexico=== (as of June 2005) The country had in May 2005 42,058,700 subscribers in total.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 Telcel GSM, TDMA 32.29 América Móvil
2 movistar GSM 5.85 Telefónica Móviles
3 Iusacell CDMA 1.62 Grupo Salinas
4 Unefon CDMA 1.44 Moisés Saba and TV Azteca

===Peru=== (as of June 2005) The country had 4,655,214 subscribers in total, or a 16.62% penetration rate.

Rank Operator technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 movistar CDMA, TDMA 2.99 Telefónica Móviles
2 TIM GSM 1.46 América Móvil
3 NEXTEL iDEN 0.21 Sprint Nextel

===United States=== (as of December 2004) The country had 182,140,862 subscribers in total. These are the largest mobile phone companies in the United States, by number of subscribers.

Rank Operator technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 Cingular UMTS, GSM, TDMA 54 SBC (60%) and BellSouth (40%)
2 Verizon Wireless CDMA 47.4 Verizon Communications (55%) and Vodafone (45%)
3 Sprint CDMA, iDEN 44.4 Sprint Nextel Corporation
4 T-Mobile GSM 19.2 Deutsche Telekom
5 ALLTEL GSM, CDMA, TDMA 10.6 ALLTEL Corporation
6 U.S. Cellular CDMA, TDMA 5.2 United States Cellular Corp.
7 TracFone GSM, CDMA, TDMA 4.9 América Móvil
8 Virgin Mobile USA CDMA 3.0 Virgin Group
9 Dobson Communications GSM, TDMA 1.6
10 Cricket Communications CDMA 1.5

In North America, IS-2000 is commonly known as CDMA. IS-136 is known as TDMA. However, CDMA and TDMA are general terms that can refer to several different technologies.

Venezuela

The country had in June 2005 9,830,348 subscribers in total, or a 37.10% penetration rate.

Operator Technology Subscribers Ownership
National operators
movistar CDMA 5.2 Telefónica Móviles
Movilnet CDMA, TDMA 3.4 Cantv and GTE
Regional operators
Digitel TIM GSM 1.2 Telecom Italia
Digicel GSM
Infonet GSM

Asia Pacific

===Australia=== (as of June 2005) The country has currently 18,094,000 subscribers in total.

Operator Technology Subscribers Ownership
Telstra Mobile GSM, CDMA 8.23 Telstra (~50% State-owned)
Optus Mobile GSM, CDMA 6.03 Singapore Telecommunications
Vodafone GSM 2.89 Vodafone
3 UMTS 0.53 Hutchison Whampoa
Orange CDMA 0.42 Hutchison Whampoa

===Bangladesh=== (as of March 2005)

Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
GrameenPhone GSM 2.93 Telenor and Grameen Bank
Banglalink GSM 0.19 Orascom Telecom
Aktel GSM AK Khan & Company and Telekom Malaysia
CityCell CDMA Singapore Telecommunications, Pacific Motors and Far East Telecom
bMobile GSM State-owned

===China, People's Republic of=== (as of July 2005) The country had in June 2005 363,170,000 subscribers in total.

Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
China Mobile GSM 227.36 State-owned
China Unicom GSM, CDMA 121.79 State-owned

Hong Kong

The administrative region had in May 2005 8,346,115 subscribers in total, or a 121.00% penetration rate.

Operator Technology Ownership
CSL (CSL, 1O1O and One2Free) UMTS, GSM, TDMA Telstra
31 UMTS, GSM, CDMA Hutchison Whampoa
Smartone and eXtra UMTS, GSM Sun Hung Kai and British Telecom
Sunday2 GSM
Peoples GSM
New World Mobility GSM

1. Previously Orange Hong Kong, Xin Gan Xian, Everyday PCS.
2. July 2005: PCCW former owner of CSL has agreed in June to buy the 59.9% of shares held by the two biggest shareholders at HK$0.65 each share. The acquisition has received approval from Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority, and has progressed to a mandatory unconditional cash offer to buy the remaining stock at HK$0.65 per share. Total cost to PCCW will be approx HK$1.942bn, allowing its reentry into the wireless market and access to Sunday's 3G licence.

===China, Republic of (Taiwan)=== (as of June 2005) The country has currently 20,659,000 subscribers in total, or a 90.92% penetration rate.

Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
Chunghwa Telecom GSM 8.11 State-owned
Far EasTone UMTS, GSM
KG Telecom GSM
MobiTai GSM
Taiwan Mobile GSM
VIBO UMTS
APBW CDMA

===India=== (as of August 2005) The country had 62,570,000 subscribers in total, or a 5.76% penetration rate.

Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
Airtel GSM 13.41 Bharti Tele-Ventures
BSNL GSM 11.32 State-owned
RIM GSM, CDMA 11.13 Reliance Industries Limited
Hutch GSM 9.30 Hutchison Whampoa
!DEA GSM 5.88 Birla (Tata Group)
Spice GSM 1.48 Spicecorp and DISTACOM
MTNL GSM 1.22 State-owned

===Indonesia=== (as of June 2005)

Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
Telkomsel GSM 21.58 State-owned PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia and Singapore Telecommunications
Indosat GSM, CDMA 12.90
XL GSM
Mobile8 CDMA
Esia CDMA
TelkomFlexi CDMA
LippoTel GSM

===Japan=== (as of August 2005) (Mobile and Personal Handy-phone System included) The country had 93,314,900 subscribers in total.

Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
NTT DoCoMo PDC, FOMA, PHS 50.82 NTT (~50% State-owned)
KDDI CDMA 20.54 KDDI
Vodafone Japan UMTS, PDC 14.99 Vodafone
TU-KA PDC 3.53 KDDI
Willcom PHS 3.37 Carlyle Group, Kyocera and KDDI
Astel PHS 0.07

===Korea, Republic of=== (as of August 2005) The country had 37,788,000 subscribers in total, or a 78.10% penetration rate.

Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
SK Telecom UMTS, CDMA 19.28 SK Corporation
KTF UMTS, CDMA 12.27 KT
LG Telecom CDMA 6.24 LG Corporation and BT

Malaysia

The country had in March 2005 15,829,000 subscribers in total, or a 60.90% penetration rate.

Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
Maxis Berhad UMTS, GSM
Celcom UMTS, GSM
Digi GSM

===Pakistan=== (as of May 2005) The country had in June 2005 12,865,602 subscribers in total.

Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
Mobilink GSM 7.08 Orascom Telecom
Ufone GSM GSM, CDMA 2.43 State-owned
Paktel GSM, TDMA, AMPS 0.83 Millicom
Telenor GSM 0.73 Telenor
Instaphone TDMA, AMPS 0.52 Millicom
Warid Telecom GSM

===Philippines=== (as of December 2004) The country had 32,935,875 subscribers in total, or a 39.85% penetration rate.

Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
Smart Communications GSM 14.60
Globe Telecom¹ GSM 12.51 Singapore Telecommunications
Piltel GSM 4.61
Digitel Mobile/Sun Cellular GSM 1.20
Extelcom CDMA 0.01

1. UMTS service for Globe is planned for launch by at least 2007.

===Thailand=== (as of June 2005)

Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
Advance Info Service (AIS) GSM 15.81 Shin Corporation and Singapore Telecommunications
DTAC GSM 8.24 UCOM and Telenor
Orange GSM True Corporation and France Télécom
Hutch CDMA 0.68 Hutchison Whampoa
Thai Mobile UMTS, GSM State-owned

Vietnam

Not available yet. To come soon

Europe

===Austria=== (as of July 2005) The country has currently 8,140,000 subscribers in total.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 A1 UMTS, GSM 3.31 Telekom Austria
2 T-Mobile GSM 2.06 Deutsche Telekom
3 One UMTS, GSM 1.54
4 tele.ring GSM 0.93 Deutsche Telekom
5 3 UMTS 0.3 Hutchison Whampoa

===Belgium=== (as of June 2005) The country has currently 8,930,000 subscribers in total.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 Proximus UMTS, GSM 4.21 Belgacom and Vodafone
2 Mobistar UMTS, GSM 2.87 France Télécom
3 Base GSM 1.85 KPN

Bulgaria

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 M-Tel1 GSM Telekom Austria
2 GloBul GSM OTE
3 Viva GSM State-owned BTC (Bulgarian Telecommunication Company)

1 UMTS licence has been acquired by M-Tel in March 2005.

===Czech Republic=== (as of June 2005) The country has currently 10,834,000 subscribers in total.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 T-Mobile1 GSM 4.46 Deutsche Telekom
2 Eurotel Praha (Prague) GSM 4.42 Český Telekom
3 Oskar Mobil GSM 1.95 Vodafone

1 UMTS service for T-Mobile CZ is currently being planned for launch on March 2006.

Finland

Operator Technology Ownership
Sonera UMTS, GSM Telia Sonera
Elisa (formerly Radiolinja) UMTS, GSM
DNA Finland GSM Finnet
GSM Åland GSM Mariehamns Telefon and Ålands Telefonandelslag
Virtual Mobile Network Operators
Saunalahti GSM
Tele2 GSM
Cubio GSM

===France=== (as of June 2005) (Metropolitan France only.) The country has currently 43,884,700 subscribers in total, or a 75.00% penetration rate.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 Orange GSM 20.67 State-owned France Télécom
1 SFR GSM 15.69 SFR Cegetel and Vodafone
1 Bouygues Telecom GSM 7.53 Bouygues group

===Germany=== (as of June 2005) The country has currently 74,088,000 subscribers in total.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 T-Mobile UMTS, GSM 28.18 Deutsche Telekom
2 Vodafone UMTS, GSM 27.72 Vodafone
3 E-Plus GSM 9.80 KPN
4 O2 GSM 8.39 O2 plc

===Greece=== (as of June 2005) The country has currently 11,659,600 subscribers in total.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 Cosmote UMTS, GSM 4.38 OTE
2 Vodafone GSM 4.17 Vodafone
3 TIM1 GSM 2.26
4 Q-Telecom2 GSM 0.85 Info-Quest

1. Was Telestet until February 2004 but the name is still used coloquially.
2. The newest mobile telecom in Greece uses Vodafone's infrastructure until it builds its own network.

===Hungary=== (as of July 2005) The country has currently 8,976,904 subscribers in total, or a 89.00% penetration rate.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 T-Mobile GSM 4.08 Deutsche Telekom
2 Pannon GSM GSM 3.07 Telenor
3 Vodafone GSM 1.83 Vodafone

Italy

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 TIM UMTS, GSM 26.3 Telecom Italia
2 Vodafone Italy1 UMTS, GSM 17 Vodafone
3 Wind GSM 7.7 Enel
4 3 UMTS 5.2 Hutchison Whampoa

Netherlands

The country had in June 2005 16,660,000 subscribers in total.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)
1 KPN GSM 3.9
2 Vodafone GSM 3.6
3 Telfort GSM 2.4
4 T-Mobile GSM 2.3
5 Orange GSM 1.65

Norway

Rank Operator Subscribers
(in millions)
1 Telenor 2.5
2 NetCom 1.2

Poland

The country had in June 2005 25,300,000 SIM cards in total, or a 65.90% penetration rate.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 Era UMTS, GSM 8.60 Elektrim and Deutsche Telekom
2 Idea¹ UMTS&sup2, GSM 7.44 TPSA and France Telecom
3 Plus GSM UMTS, GSM 7.03 Vodafone, TDC, KGHM, PKN Orlen, PSE

&sup1 They have announced their intention to rebrand as Orange by the end of September 2005. &sup2 Not yet operational as of September 2005

Portugal

The country had in March 2005 10,642,600 subscribers in total, or a 101.60% penetration rate.

Operator Technology Ownership
TMN UMTS, GSM Portugal Telecom
Vodafone (formerly Telecel) UMTS, GSM Vodafone Group
Optimus UMTS, GSM Sonae, France Telecom
Mobile Virtual Network Operators
Yorn (Young ORiginal Network) (over Vodafone) UMTS, GSM Vodafone Group
rede4 (over Optimus) GSM Sonae, France Telecom
UZO (over TMN) GSM Portugal Telecom

===Romania=== (as of July 2005) The country has currently 11,620,000 subscribers in total, or a 53.55% penetration rate.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 Orange Romania GSM 6.00 France Télécom
2 Connex GSM Romania UMTS, GSM 5.25 Vodafone
3 Zapp Mobile CDMA 0.28 Oger Telecom
4 Cosmorom GSM 0.09 OTE

===Russian Federation=== (as of July 2005) The country has currently 102,440,000 subscribers in total, or a 70.60% penetration rate. These are the largest mobile phone companies in Russia, by number of subscribers.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 Mobile TeleSystems - MTS GSM 35.74 AFK Sistema and Deutsche Telekom
2 VimpelCom - Bee Line GSM GSM 35.35 Telenor and Alfa Group
3 MegaFon GSM 19.15 Telia Sonera, Telecominvest and IPOC International Growth Fund
4 Uralsvyazinform GSM 2.95
5 SMARTS GSM 2.39
6 Tele2 GSM 1.91
7 Sibirtelecom GSM 1.48

Serbia & Montenegro

Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)
MOBTEL GSM
ProMonte GSM
MONET GSM
Mobilna Telefonija Srbija GSM

===Spain=== (as of June 2005) The country has currently 40,921,800 subscribers in total.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 movistar UMTS, GSM 19.38 Telefónica Móviles
2 Vodafone UMTS, GSM 11.84 Vodafone
3 Amena1 UMTS, GSM 9.70 France Télécom

1. to be rebranded Orange Spain

===Sweden=== (as of June 2005)

Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)
Telia UMTS,GSM 4.32
Tele2Comviq UMTS,GSM 3.50
Vodafone UMTS,GSM 1.52
3 UMTS
Spring Mobil GSM

===Switzerland=== (as of June 2005) The country has currently 6,426,000 subscribers in total.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 Swisscom Mobile UMTS, GSM 4.04 State-owned Swisscom and Vodafone
2 Sunrise GSM 1.23 TDC Group
3 Orange GSM 1.15 France Télécom

===Turkey=== (as of March 2005) The country had 36,792,900 subscribers in total.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 Turkcell GSM 24.3 Cukurova Group and Telia Sonera
2 Telsim GSM not available yet Currently possessed by state, to be sold off soon.
3 Avea GSM not available yet Türk Telekom, Telecom Italia and Türk İş Bankası

===Ukraine=== (as of September 2005) The country has currently 21,500,000 mobile subscribers in total, or a 46.00% penetration rate.

Rank Operator Technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 Ukrainian Mobile Communications GSM, NMT 10.52 MTS (100%)
2 Kyivstar GSM 10.41 Telenor (56.52%), Alfa Group (43.48%)
3 Astelit life:) GSM 0.5 Turkcell (54.2%), Rinat Akhmetov
4 Ukrainian RadioSystems GSM 0.1 Optima-Telecom and PRIVAT Group
5 Golden Telecom GSM 0.06 Golden Telecom Inc. (GLDN)
6 DCC TDMA 0.04 Turkcell (54.2%), Rinat Akhmetov
- CDMA operators CDMA 0.1 ITC, Velton, etc.

===United Kingdom=== (as of June 2005) The country has currently 63,601,000 subscribers in total

Rank Operator technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 T-Mobile UMTS, GSM 16.06 Deutsche Telekom
2 Vodafone UMTS, GSM 15.49 Vodafone
3 O2 GSM 14.62 O2 plc
4 Orange UMTS, GSM 14.46 France Télécom
5 3 UMTS 3.21 1 Hutchison Whampoa

1 Data as of August 24 2005.

There are also a number of Virtual Mobile Network Operators, including Virgin Mobile, Tesco Mobile, and easyMobile.

Middle East & Africa

===Algeria=== (as of December 2004) The country had 4,882,414 subscribers in total, or a 15.26% penetration rate.

Rank Operator technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 Djezzy GSM 3.42 Orascom Telecom
2 Mobilis GSM 1.18 State-owned Algérie Télécom
3 Nedjma GSM 0.29 Wataniya Telecom

===Egypt=== (as of July 2005) The country has currently 10,567,129 subscribers in total.

Rank Operator technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 MobiNil [10] GSM 5.57 Orascom Telecom and France Télécom
2 Vodafone [11] GSM 4.99 Vodafone

===Mauritius=== (as of June 2005

Rank Operator technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 Cellplus GSM 0.39 Mauritius Telecom group and France Telecom
2 Emtel GSM Not available yet Millicom International Cellular

===Morocco=== (as of June 2005) The country had 10,725,000 subscribers in total, or a 35.88% penetration rate.

Rank Operator technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 IAM (Itissalat al-Maghrib) [12] GSM 7.19 State-owned Maroc Télécom
2 Méditel [13] GSM 3.54 Telefónica Móviles and Portugal Telecom

===Mozambique=== (as of May 2005)

Rank Operator technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 mCel GSM 0.77 Partially state-owned
2 MTN GSM Not available yet Mobile Telephone Networks

===Nigeria=== (as of June 2005) The country had in December 2004 9,174,209 subscribers in total.

Rank Operator technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
Glo Mobile [14] GSM Not available yet
MTN Nigeria [15] GSM 6.38 MTN
Mtel [16] GSM Not available yet State-owned Nitel
Vmobile [17] GSM Not available yet First Bank of Nigeria and AKIIPOC

Saudi Arabia

Rank Operator technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 Al Jawal GSM State-owned Saudi Telecom
2 Mobily GSM Etisalat

===South Africa=== (as of June 2005)

Rank Operator technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 Vodacom-Vodafone [18] UMTS, GSM 14.29 Vodafone
2 MTN [19] UMTS, GSM 8.41 Mobile Telephone Networks
3 Cell C [20] GSM not available yet Oger Telecom

===Sudan=== (as of February 2004)

Rank Operator technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 Mobitel GSM Sudatel and MSI Cellular Holdings

===Tunisia=== (as of June 2005)

Rank Operator technology Subscribers
(in millions)		 Ownership
1 Tuntel GSM Not available yet State-owned Tunisie Télécom
2 Tunisiana GSM 1.56 Wataniya Telecom and Orascom Telecom

Sources of information

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