World

These are the world's largest mobile phone companies, by number of subscribers. The largest in the world by turnover is Vodafone. The primary cellular technology used by each carrier is shown in parentheses. Vodafones corporate logo is the outline of a SIM card Vodafone is a multinational mobile phone operator with headquarters in Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom and Düsseldorf, Germany. ...

• China Mobile (GSM) - 223.8 million
• Vodafone¹ (GSM, UMTS) - 165 million
• China Unicom (CDMA, GSM) - 120.53 million
• movistar (Telefónica) (GSM, UMTS, CDMA) - 81.4 million
• T-Mobile² (GSM, UMTS) - 78.9 million
• Cingular (TDMA, GSM, UMTS³) - 51.6 million
• Orange (GSM, UMTS) - 49 million
• Verizon Wireless (CDMA) - 47.4 million
• NTT DoCoMo (PDC, FOMA) - 50.75 million
• Mobile TeleSystems - MTS (GSM) - 34.22 million
• Telcel (GSM, TDMA) - 32.3 million.
• Singapore Telecommunications⁴ (GSM, UMTS) - 28.45 million
• Vivo (CDMA, TDMA) - 28.4 million
• Sprint PCS (CDMA) - 26.6 million
• TIM⁵ (GSM, UMTS) - 26.3 million
• Turkcell (GSM) - 25.6 million
• O₂ (GSM) - 21.3 million
• Hutchison (GSM, UMTS) - 20 million

¹ 431.8 million including subscribers to companies where Vodafone has a minority stake.
² 120 million including subscribers to companies where T-Mobile has a minority stake.
³ UMTS network currently being tested in six U.S. cities
⁴ 71.14 million including subscribers to companies where Singapore Telecommunications has a minority stake.
⁵ 53.8 million including subscribers to companies where TIM has a minority stake.
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Americas

Argentina

(as of March 2005) March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...

• movistar (GSM) - 6.2 million. Owned by Telefónica Móviles.
• Personal (GSM). Owned by Telecom Argentina.
• CTI Movil (GSM) - 4.1 million. Owned by América Móvil.
• Nextel (iDEN)

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Bolivia

• Entel (GSM). Owned by Telecom Italia.
• Telecel (TDMA). Owned by Millicom.
• Viva (GSM). Owned by Western Wireless and Comteco (Cooperativa de Teléfonos de Cochabamba).

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Brazil

(as of June 2005) June is the sixth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four with the length of 30 days. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...

There are three national mobile phone companies:

• Vivo (CDMA, TDMA) Website - 28.4 million. Owned by Telefónica Móviles and Portugal Telecom.
• TIM (GSM, TDMA) Website - 16.8 million. Owned by Telecom Italia.
• Claro (GSM, TDMA) Website - 16.2 million. Owned by América Móvil.

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• Oi (GSM) Website - 8.1 million. Owned by fixed-line phone company Telemar.
• Telemig Celular/Amazônia Celular (GSM, TDMA) Website - 4.2 million. Owned by Telpart group.
• Brasil Telecom GSM (GSM) Website - 1.4 million. Owned by fixed-line phone company Brasil Telecom.
• CTBC (GSM, TDMA) Website - 0.3 million. Owned by fixed-line phone company CTBC.
• Sercomtel Celular (GSM, TDMA) Website - 0.08 million. Owned by Londrina city (Paraná State) state-run fixed-line phone company Sercomtel.

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Canada

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• Rogers Wireless (GSM) - 5.6 million.
• Bell Mobility (CDMA) - 4.5 million.
• TELUS Mobility (CDMA)- 4.0 million.
• Aliant Mobility (CDMA) - 0.6 million.
• SaskTel Mobility (CDMA)- 0.3 million.

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Chile

• movistar (GSM, CDMA, TDMA). Owned by Telefónica Móviles.
• Entel PCS (GSM). Owned by Hurtado Vicuña group.
• Smartcom (CDMA). Owned by América Móvil.

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Colombia

(as of June 2005) June is the sixth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four with the length of 30 days. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...

• Comcel (GSM, TDMA) - 9.2 million. Owned by América Móvil.
• movistar (CDMA, TDMA, GSM) - 4.8 million. Owned by Telefónica Móviles.
• Ola (GSM) - 1.7 million. Owned by state-run EPM (Empresas Públicas de Medellín) and ETB (Empresa de Teléfonos de Bogotá) companies.

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Ecuador

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• Porta (GSM, TDMA) - 3.05 million. Owned by América Móvil.
• movistar (CDMA, TDMA) - 1.65 million. Owned by Telefónica Móviles.

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Mexico

(as of March 2005) March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...

• Telcel (GSM, TDMA) - 30.6 million. Owned by América Móvil.
• movistar (GSM) - 6.1 million. Owned by Telefónica Móviles.
• Iusacell (CDMA) - 1.6 million. Owned by Grupo Salinas.
• Unefon (CDMA) - 1.4 million. Owned by Moisés Saba and TV Azteca.

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Paraguay

• Telecel (TDMA). Owned by Millicom.
• Nucleo (GSM, TDMA). Owned by ABC Comunicaciones and Telecom Argentina.
• Vox (GSM). Owned by KDDI and Toyotoshi Holding Corporation.
• Porthable (GSM). Owned by América Móvil.

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Peru

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• movistar (CDMA, TDMA) - 2.9 million. Owned by Telefónica Móviles.
• TIM (GSM) - 1.3 million. Owned by Telecom Italia.
• Nextel (iDEN) - 0.2 million.

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United States

These are the largest mobile phone companies in the United States, by number of subscribers.

• Cingular (TDMA, GSM, UMTS)(Joint venture: 60% owned by SBC, 40% owned by BellSouth) - 51.6 million
• Verizon Wireless (CDMA) (55% owned by Verizon Communications, 45% owned by Vodafone) - 47.4 million
• Sprint PCS³ (CDMA) - 26 million
• T-Mobile (GSM) - 18.2 million
• Nextel³ (iDEN) - 15.3 million
• ALLTEL⁴ (CDMA) - 13 million
• U.S. Cellular (TDMA, CDMA) - 4.8 million
• Virgin Mobile USA (CDMA) - 3 million
• Dobson Communications (TDMA, GSM) - 1.6 million
• Cricket Communications (CDMA) - 1.5 million
• Western Wireless⁴ (TDMA, CDMA, GSM) - 1.2 million
• Centennial Wireless (TDMA, GSM) - 0.5 million

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Uruguay

• Ancel (GSM, TDMA). State-owned fixed-line companyAntel mobile phone division.
• movistar (GSM, CDMA). Owned by Telefónica Móviles.
• Link title (GSM). Owned by América Móvil.

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Venezuela

There are three national mobile phone companies:

• movistar (CDMA). Owned by Telefónica Móviles.
• Movilnet (CDMA, TDMA). Owned by Cantv.
• Digitel (GSM). Owned by Telecom Italia.

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• Digicel (GSM).
• Infonet (GSM).

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Asia Pacific

Australia

• Telstra (CDMA, GSM). Former state-owned enterprise.
• Optus (GSM). Owned by Singtel.
• Vodafone (GSM) - 2.57 million
• Orange (CDMA)
• 3 (UMTS)
• Virgin Mobile (Virtual Network using Optus)

Telstra Corporation (ASX: TLS) is an Australian telecommunications company under joint public/private ownership, holding a superdominant position in landline telephone services, large share of mobile phone services, domestic consumer (including dial-up access and broadband cable modem, satellite and ADSL services under the BigPond and Hypermax brands) and business... General Information Generically (as a multiplexing scheme), code division multiple access (CDMA) is any use of any form of spread spectrum by multiple transmitters to send to the same receiver on the same frequency channel at the same time without harmful interference. ... GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. ... Optus is the second largest telecommunications company in Australia, and is a wholly owned subsidary of SingTel (ASX: SGT). ... GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. ... SingTel (formerly Singapore Telecoms) is Singapores largest telecommunications company. ... Vodafones corporate logo is the outline of a SIM card Vodafone is a multinational mobile phone operator with headquarters in Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom and Düsseldorf, Germany. ... GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. ... Orange SA is a major mobile phone operator. ... General Information Generically (as a multiplexing scheme), code division multiple access (CDMA) is any use of any form of spread spectrum by multiple transmitters to send to the same receiver on the same frequency channel at the same time without harmful interference. ... An advertisement for 3 in which Leon Lai, a Hong Kong-based Cantopop singer is the pinup. ... Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is one of the third-generation (3G) mobile phone technologies. ... Virgin Mobile plc, is a virtual cellular phone service provider operating in the UK, US, Australia, and Canada. ... Optus is the second largest telecommunications company in Australia, and is a wholly owned subsidary of SingTel (ASX: SGT). ...

Bangladesh

• AKTel (GSM) Website- 1.7 Million
• Banglalink (GSM) Website
• CityCell (CDMA) Website
• Grameen Phone (GSM) Website - 3 million

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China, People's Republic of

• China Mobile (GSM)
• China Unicom (CDMA, GSM)

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Hong Kong

• CSL (CSL, 1O1O and One2Free) (owned by Telstra, previously by PCCW) (GSM-900, GSM-1800, IS-136, UMTS)
• 3 (previous Orange Hong Kong, Xin Gan Xian, Everyday PCS, owned by Hutchison Whampoa Telecommunications) (GSM-900, GSM-1800, IS-95, UMTS)
• Smartone and eXtra (owned by Sun Hung Kai and British Telecom) (GSM-900, GSM-1800, UMTS)
• Sunday (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.) (GSM-1800)
• Peoples (GSM-1800)
• New World Mobility (GSM-1800)

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India

• Airtel (GSM) 12.256 million (as of June 30, 2005)
• Hutch 7.6 million (as of ??)
• Idea
• BSNL
• Reliance Infocomm (CDMA2000) 8 million (as of June 30, 2004)
• Tata Teleservices
• MTNL

AirTel is a brand of cell phone services in India operated by Bharti Televentures. ... GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. ... Hutch is a cellular operator in India. ... BSNL or Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is Indias largest Communication Service Provider (CSP), and seventh largest in the world. ... Reliance Infocomm is one of the biggest telecommunications service provider in India and it belongs to the biggest business group called Reliance Industries Limited. ... CDMA2000 is a 3G mobile telecommunications standard that uses CDMA, a multiple access scheme for digital radio, to send voice, data and signaling data (such as a dialed telephone number) between mobile telephones and cell sites. ... The Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited is the government owned telephone service provider in the cities of Bombay, New Delhi and New Bombay in India. ...

Indonesia

• Telkomsel (GSM)
• Indosat (GSM and CDMA)
• ExcelCom (GSM)
• Mobile8 (CDMA)
• Esia (CDMA)
• TelkomFlexi (CDMA)
• LippoTel (GSM)

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Japan

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• NTT DoCoMo (PDC, FOMA) - 49,65 million
• KDDI (CDMA2000) - 20.35 million million
• Vodafone Japan (PDC, UMTS) - 15 million

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Malaysia

• Celcom (GSM and UMTS) - 6.5 million
• Maxis_Berhad (GSM and UMTS) - 6.7 million
• Digi (GSM) - 3.5 million

Celcom is one of the pioneer mobile phone service providers in Malaysia using the dialling identifier of 013 and 019. The company started in 1988. ... GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. ... Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is one of the third-generation (3G) mobile phone technologies. ... Maxis was founded as a video game developer in 1987. ... GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. ... Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is one of the third-generation (3G) mobile phone technologies. ... GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. ...

New Zealand

• Vodafone (GSM and UMTS) - 1.89 million (55.4%)
• Telecom (AMPS, TDMA and CDMA) - 1.52 millon (44.6%)
• Woosh Wireless (UMTS) - fixed wireless Internet service provider
• TelstraClear (Virtual Network using Vodafone)
• Boost Mobile (Virtual Network using Telecom)

Vodafones corporate logo is the outline of a SIM card Vodafone is a multinational mobile phone operator with headquarters in Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom and Düsseldorf, Germany. ... GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. ... Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is one of the third-generation (3G) mobile phone technologies. ... Telecom New Zealand (NYSE: NZT) is a Wellington-based telephone company formed by after the privatisation of the New Zealand Post Office in 1990 and is also New Zealands second largest mobile operator. ... Advanced Mobile Phone System or AMPS is the analog mobile phone system standard, introduced in the Americas during the early 1980s. ... Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) is a technology for shared medium (usually radio) networks. ... General Information Generically (as a multiplexing scheme), code division multiple access (CDMA) is any use of any form of spread spectrum by multiple transmitters to send to the same receiver on the same frequency channel at the same time without harmful interference. ... An Internet service provider (ISP) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. ... TelstraClear is New Zealands second largest full-service telecommunications company, based in Auckland. ... Vodafones corporate logo is the outline of a SIM card Vodafone is a multinational mobile phone operator with headquarters in Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom and Düsseldorf, Germany. ... The tone of this article is inappropriate for an encyclopedia article. ... Telecom New Zealand (NYSE: NZT) is a Wellington-based telephone company formed by after the privatisation of the New Zealand Post Office in 1990 and is also New Zealands second largest mobile operator. ...

Philippines

• Smart Communications (GSM) - 14 million
• Globe Telecom¹ (GSM) - 11 million
• Sun Cellular (GSM) - 1.7 million
• Next Mobile (iDEN) - 31,000
• Extelcom

¹ UMTS service for Globe is planned for launch by at least 2007. GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. ... Globe Telecom (PSE: GLO) is the second-largest telecommunications company in the Philippines. ...