Top 20 Mobile operators

Wireless operator name, country and total number of customers in millions.

1. China Mobile (China) – 375

2. Vodafone (UK) – 255

3. China Unicom (China) - 163

4. Telefonica / Movistar / O2 (Spain) – 161

5. America Movill (Mexico) – 155

6. T-Mobile (Germany) – 120

7. Orange / France Telecom (France) – 110

8. Telenor (Norway) – 92

10. AT&T Wireless (USA) - 71

11. Verizon Wireless (USA) – 67

12. SingTel (Singapore) – 64

13. Telecom Italia / TIM (Italy) - 63

14. Bharti Airtel (India) – 60

15. Orascom Telecom (Egypt) – 55

16. Sprint Nextel (United States) - 54

17. VimpelCom (Russia) – 53

18. NTT DoCoMo (Japan) – 53

19. Telkomsel (Indonesia) – 45

20. TeliaSonera (Sweden and Finland) – 43

Currently there are about 3 billion 352 million mobile wireless subscribers in the World. GSM based technology accounting for 2.7 billion, 3g/UMTS (WCDMA) – 200 million, 400 million CDMA/1x technologies, 7 million TDMA, 16 million PDC, 28 million iDEN subscribers and about one million analogue users.

Data is based on the wireless intelligence data, GSM Association and CDMA development group (CDG).

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