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| Rank | Company | Main Markets | Technology | Subscribers (proportionate, in millions) |
Subscribers (total, in millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China Mobile (China) | China (inc. Hong Kong) & Pakistan | GSM, GPRS, EDGE TD-SCDMA |
500.59 [1] (June 2008) | 436.12 [2] (30 Sep 2008) |
| 2 | Vodafone (United Kingdom) | United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Romania, Greece, Portugal, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Albania, Malta, Northern Cyprus, Faroe Island, India, USA, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Egypt, Ghana, Fiji, Lesotho, Mozambique | CdmaOne CDMA2000 1x, EV-DO GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS, HSDPA LTE (planned) |
260.5 [3] (April 2008) | |
| 3 | Telefonica / Movistar / O2 (Spain) | Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Ireland, Germany, UK, Czech Republic, Morocco, Slovakia | D-AMPS CdmaOne CDMA2000 1x GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS, HSDPA LTE (planned) |
188.9 [4] (September 2008) | 188.9 [5] (September 2008) |
| 4 | America Movil (Mexico) | USA, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Jamaica, Peru, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Ecuador and El Salvador | D-AMPS CdmaOne CDMA2000 1x, EV-DO GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS, HSDPA |
172.5 [6] (September 2008) | 172.5 [7] (September 2008) |
| 5 | Telenor (Norway) | Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, Montenegro, Serbia, Russia, Ukraine, Thailand, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Malaysia | GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS, HSDPA |
159 [8] (September 2008) | 159 [9] (September 2008) |
| 6 | China Unicom (China) | China (inc. Macau) | GSM, GPRS | 127.6 [10] (June 2008) | 127.6[11] (June 2008) |
| 7 | T-Mobile (Germany) | Germany, USA, UK, Poland, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Hungary, Austria, Croatia, Slovakia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands | GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS, HSDPA LTE (planned) |
126.6 [12] (September 2008) | 126.6 [13] (September 2008) |
| 8 | TeliaSonera (Sweden) | Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Spain, Central Asia | GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS, HSDPA |
115.0 [14] (December, 2007) | 115 [15] (June 2008) |
| 9 | Orange / France Telecom (France) | France, UK, Switzerland, Poland, Spain, Romania, Moldova, Slovakia, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Israel, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Cameroon, Botsawa, Madagascar, Mali, Senegal, Mauritius, Reunion, Martinique, French Guiana, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Dominica, Dominican Republic | GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS, HSDPA LTE (planned) |
111.884 [16] (March 2008) | 111.884 [17] (March 2008) |
| 10 | MTS (Russia) | Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia | GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS |
91.73 (September 2008) | 91.73 [18] (September 2008) |
| 11 | Verizon Wireless (United States) | United States | CdmaOne CDMA2000 1x, EV-DO LTE (planned) |
83.7 [19] (January 2009) | 83.7 [20] (January 2009) |
| 12 | Bharti Airtel (India) | India, Seychelles, Jersey, Guernsey, Sri Lanka | GSM, GPRS, EDGE | 82.07 (Nov 2008) | 82.07 [21] (Nov 2008) |
| 13 | MTN Group (South Africa) | Afghanistan, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Republic of Guinea, Iran, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia | GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA |
80.74 (September 2008) | 80.74 [22] (September 2008) |
| 14 | AT&T Mobility (United States) | United States, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands | GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA LTE (planned) |
74.9 [23] (October 2008) | 74.9 [24] (October 2008) |
| 15 | SingTel (Singapore) | Singapore, Australia, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Bangladesh, Pakistan | GSM UMTS, HSDPA |
70.76 [25] (Aug2008) | 198.71 (Aug 2008) |
| 16 | Telecom Italia / TIM (Italy) | Italy, Brazil, San Marino, Vatican City | D-AMPS GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS, HSDPA LTE (planned) |
70.6 (September 2008) [26] | 70.6 (September 2008) [27] |
| 17 | Etisalat (United Arab Emirates) | Afghanistan, Benin, Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, the Ivory Coast, Egypt, Gabon, Indonesia, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo and the United Arab Emirates | GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA | 63.0 (April 2008) | 63.0 [28] (April 2008) |
| 18 | Orascom Telecom (Egypt) | Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Pakistan, Tunisia, Zimbabwe | GSM, GPRS, EDGE | 62.9 (September 2008) | 77.0 [29] (September 2008) |
| 19 | VimpelCom / Altimo (Russia) | Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Georgia, Armenia, Vietnam, Cambodia | D-AMPS GSM, GPRS, UMTS |
57.8 (September 2008) | 57.8 [30] (September 2008) |
| 20 | NTT docomo (Japan) | Japan, Bangladesh | GSM, GPRS, PDC FOMA, HSDPA LTE (planned) |
54.16 [31] (December 2008) | 54.16 [32] (December 2008) |