Russell Beattie Notebook

Wikipedia: World's Largest Mobile Phone Companies

Posted on Tuesday, July 12th, 2005 2:21 PM

Spencer just linked to Wikipedia's Largest Mobile Phone Companies page and it's pretty amazing to see the numbers broken down by carrier and country. I included the top list below (FYI: IS-2000 is CDMA) Thanks!

• China Mobile (GSM) - 204.3 million
• Vodafone¹ (GSM, UMTS) - 154.838 million
• China Unicom (IS-2000, GSM) - 100.1 million
• T-Mobile² (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)

-Russ