Jul 12 2005
Worlds largest mobile phone carriers
Wikipedia has a great page on mobile phone carriers, worldwide and by region, ranked by size. It kinda puts China in perspective, even before you think about level of penetration and expected future growth rates.
• China Mobile (GSM) – 204.3 million
• Vodafone (GSM, UMTS) – 154.838 million
• China Unicom (IS-2000, GSM) – 100.1 million
• T-Mobile (GSM, UMTS) – 78.9 million
• movistar (GSM, UMTS, IS-2000) – 51.3 million
• Cingular (IS-136, GSM, UMTS3) – 50 million
• Orange (GSM, UMTS) – 49 million
• NTT DoCoMo (PDC, FOMA) – 45.9 million
• Verizon Wireless (IS-2000) – 45.5 million
• Mobile TeleSystems – MTS (GSM) – 34.22 million
• Vivo (IS-2000, IS-136) – 27 million
• Turkcell (GSM) – 23.4 million
• Sprint PCS (IS-2000) – 22.2 million
• O2 (GSM) – 21.3 million
• TIM (GSM, UMTS)