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This is a list of mobile phone network operating companies.

World

These are the world's largest mobile network operators, by number of subscribers (and by proportionate subscribers, if the company has holdings in other operators). The largest in the world by turnover is Vodafone.

Rank	Company	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Subscribers (including minority stakes)
1	China Mobile (China)	GSM	231.01
2	Vodafone (United Kingdom)	UMTS, GSM	165.01	450.90
3	China Unicom (China)	GSM, CDMA	122.99
4	T-Mobile (Germany)	UMTS, GSM	80.88	120.00
5	América Móvil (Mexico)	GSM, TDMA	73.76
6	Telefónica Móviles (Spain)	UMTS, GSM, CDMA	69.94	85.27
7	Orange (France)	UMTS, GSM	66.74	69.55
8	Cingular (United States)	UMTS, GSM, TDMA	54.00
9	NTT DoCoMo (Japan)	PDC, FOMA	50.82
10	MTS (Russia)	GSM	48.33

Americas

===Argentina=== (as of June 2005) The country had in August 2005 18,758,335 subscribers in total.

Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
movistar	GSM	6.73	Telefónica Móviles
CTI Movil	GSM	4.92	América Móvil
Personal	GSM	4.81	Telecom Argentina
NEXTEL	iDEN	0.43	Sprint Nextel

===Brazil=== (as of August 2005) The country had 78,947,332 subscribers in total, or a 42.85% penetration rate.

Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
National operators
Vivo [1]	CDMA, TDMA	28.79	Telefónica Móviles and Portugal Telecom
TIM [2]	GSM, TDMA	18.01	Telecom Italia
Claro [3]	GSM, TDMA	17.12	América Móvil
Regional operators
Oi [4]	GSM	8.72	Telemar
Telemig Celular/Amazônia Celular [5]	GSM, TDMA	4.23	Telpart
Brasil Telecom GSM [6]	GSM	1.64	Brasil Telecom
CTBC [7]	GSM, TDMA	0.35
Sercomtel Celular [8]	GSM, TDMA	0.09	Londrina city (Paraná)State-owned Sercomtel
Specialized Mobile Radio
NEXTEL [9]	iDEN		Sprint Nextel

===Canada=== (as of June 2005)

The country had 15,583,039 subscribers in total.

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Rogers Wireless	GSM	5.71	Rogers Communications
2	Bell Mobility	CDMA	4.44	Bell Canada
3	TELUS Mobility	CDMA	4.15	Telus
4	Fido	GSM		Rogers Wireless
5	Aliant Mobility	CDMA	0.67	Aliant
6	SaskTel Mobility	CDMA	0.32	SaskTel
7	MTS Mobility	CDMA	0.30	MTS
8	Virgin Mobile	CDMA		Virgin Group

Chile

The country had in June 2005 10,572,000 subscribers in total.

Operator	Technology	Ownership
movistar	GSM, CDMA, TDMA	Telefónica Móviles
Entel PCS	GSM	Hurtado Vicuña
Smartcom	CDMA	América Móvil

===Colombia=== (as of June 2005) The country had 15,581,389 subscribers in total.

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Comcel	GSM, TDMA	9.17	América Móvil
2	movistar	GSM, CDMA, TDMA	4.76	Telefónica Móviles
3	Ola	GSM	1.65	Empresas Públicas de Medellín and Empresa de Teléfonos de Bogotá

===Ecuador=== (as of August 2005) The country had 5,221,535 subscribers in total.

Rank	Operator	technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Porta	GSM, TDMA	3.38	América Móvil
2	movistar	CDMA, TDMA	1.65	Telefónica Móviles
3	Alegro PCS	CDMA	0.18	TELECSA

===Mexico=== (as of June 2005) The country had 42,530,100 subscribers in total, or a 40.00% penetration rate.

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Telcel	GSM, TDMA	32.29	América Móvil
2	movistar	GSM	5.85	Telefónica Móviles
3	Iusacell	CDMA	1.62	Grupo Salinas
4	Unefon	CDMA	1.44	Moisés Saba and TV Azteca

===Peru=== (as of June 2005) The country had 4,655,214 subscribers in total, or a 16.62% penetration rate.

Rank	Operator	technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	movistar	CDMA, TDMA	2.99	Telefónica Móviles
2	TIM	GSM	1.46	América Móvil
3	NEXTEL	iDEN	0.21	Sprint Nextel

===United States=== (as of December 2004) The country had 182,140,862 subscribers in total. These are the largest mobile phone companies in the United States, by number of subscribers.

Rank	Operator	technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Cingular	UMTS, GSM, TDMA	54.0	SBC (60%) and BellSouth (40%)
2	Verizon Wireless	CDMA	47.4	Verizon Communications (55%) and Vodafone (45%)
3	Sprint	CDMA, iDEN	44.4	Sprint Nextel Corporation
4	T-Mobile	GSM	19.2	Deutsche Telekom
5	ALLTEL	GSM, CDMA, TDMA	10.6	ALLTEL Corporation
6	U.S. Cellular	CDMA, TDMA	5.2	United States Cellular Corp.
7	TracFone	GSM, CDMA, TDMA	4.9	América Móvil
8	Virgin Mobile (MVNO using Sprint)	CDMA	3.0	Virgin Group
9	Dobson Communications	GSM, TDMA	1.6
10	MetroPCS	CDMA	1.5
11	Cricket Communications	CDMA	1.49

In North America, IS-2000 is commonly known as CDMA. IS-136 is known as TDMA. However, CDMA and TDMA are general terms that can refer to several different technologies.

Venezuela

The country had in June 2005 9,830,348 subscribers in total, or a 37.10% penetration rate.

Operator	Technology	Subscribers	Ownership
National operators
movistar	CDMA	5.2	Telefónica Móviles
Movilnet	CDMA, TDMA	3.4	Cantv and Verizon
Regional operators
Digitel TIM	GSM	1.2	Telecom Italia
Digicel	GSM
Infonet	GSM

Asia Pacific

===Australia=== (as of June 2005) The country had 18,094,000 subscribers in total.

Operator	Technology	Subscribers	Ownership
Telstra Mobile	GSM, CDMA	8.23	Telstra (~50% State-owned)
Optus Mobile	GSM, CDMA	6.03	Singapore Telecommunications
Vodafone	GSM	2.89	Vodafone
3	UMTS	0.53	Hutchison Whampoa
Orange Australia	CDMA	0.42	Hutchison Whampoa

===Bangladesh=== (as of June 2005) The country had in December 2004 3,762,000 subscribers in total, or a 2.80% penetration rate.

Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
GrameenPhone	GSM	3.70	Telenor and Grameen Bank
Aktel	GSM	2.00	AK Khan & Company and Telekom Malaysia
Banglalink	GSM	0.46	Orascom Telecom
CityCell	CDMA	0.32	Singapore Telecommunications, Pacific Motors and Far East Telecom
bMobile	GSM	Not available yet	State-owned

Brunei

Operator	Technology
DataStream Technology	GSM

===China, People's Republic of=== (as of August 2005) The country had 372,800,000 subscribers in total.

Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
China Mobile	GSM	231.01	State-owned
China Unicom	GSM, CDMA	122.99	State-owned

See below for Hong Kong and Macau.

===China, Republic of (Taiwan)=== (as of July 2005) The country had 20,515,000 subscribers in total, or a 90.92% penetration rate.

Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
Chunghwa Telecom	GSM	8.11	State-owned
Far EasTone	UMTS, GSM
KG Telecom	GSM
MobiTai	GSM
Taiwan Mobile	GSM
VIBO	UMTS
APBW	CDMA

Fiji

Operator	Technology
Vodafone	GSM

Hong Kong

The administrative region had in June 2005 8,384,880 subscribers in total, or a 120.80% penetration rate.

Operator	Technology	Ownership
CSL (1+1, 1O1O and One2Free)	UMTS, GSM-900, GSM-1800, TDMA	Telstra
3¹	UMTS, GSM-900, GSM-1800, CDMA	Hutchison Whampoa
Smartone and eXtra	UMTS, GSM-900, GSM-1800	Sun Hung Kai and BT
Sunday²	UMTS, GSM-1800
Peoples	GSM-1800	Chinese Resources Company³
New World Mobility	GSM-1800	New World Development

_{1. Previously Orange Hong Kong, Xin Gan Xian, Everyday PCS.

2. 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 (UMTS) licence.
3. October 6 2005: It was announced Peoples will be acquired by China Mobile} ===India=== (as of August 2005) The country had 62,570,000 subscribers in total, or a 5.76% penetration rate.

Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
Airtel	GSM	13.41	Bharti Tele-Ventures
BSNL	GSM	11.32	State-owned
RIM	GSM, CDMA	11.13	Reliance Industries Limited
Hutch	GSM	9.30	Hutchison Whampoa
!DEA	GSM	5.88	Birla (Tata Group)
Spice	GSM	1.48	Spicecorp and DISTACOM
MTNL	GSM	1.22	State-owned

===Indonesia=== (as of June 2005) The country had in December 2004 30,000,000 subscribers in total, or a 13.48% penetration rate.

Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
Telkomsel	GSM	21.58	State-owned PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia and Singapore Telecommunications
Indosat	GSM, CDMA	12.90	Technologies Telemedia
XL	GSM	4.30	Telekom Malaysia
Mobile8	CDMA
Esia	CDMA
TelkomFlexi	CDMA
LippoTel	GSM

===Japan=== (as of August 2005) (Mobile and Personal Handy-phone System included) The country had 93,314,900 subscribers in total.

Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
NTT DoCoMo	PDC, FOMA, PHS	50.82	NTT (~50% State-owned)
KDDI	CDMA	20.54	KDDI
Vodafone Japan	UMTS, PDC	14.99	Vodafone
TU-KA	PDC	3.53	KDDI
Willcom	PHS	3.37	Carlyle Group, Kyocera and KDDI
Astel	PHS	0.07

===Korea, Republic of=== (as of September 2005) The country had 37,911,000 subscribers in total, or a 78.30% penetration rate.

Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
SK Telecom	UMTS, CDMA	19.34	SK Corporation
KTF	UMTS, CDMA	12.28	KT
LG Telecom	CDMA	6.29	LG Corporation and BT

Macau, China

===Malaysia=== (as of June 2005) The country had 16,551,000 subscribers in total, or a 63.30% penetration rate.

Operator	Technology	Ownership
Maxis Berhad	UMTS, GSM
Celcom	UMTS, GSM	Telekom Malaysia
Digi	GSM	Telenor

New Zealand

Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
Vodafone New Zealand	UMTS, GSM	1.89	Vodafone
Telecom	UMTS, CDMA, TDMA	1.52	State-owned
Mobile Virtual Network Operators
TelstraClear (using Vodafone)
Boost Mobile (using Telecom)

===Pakistan=== (as of August 2005) The country had 15,511,045 subscribers in total, or a 10.07% penetration rate.

Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
Mobilink	GSM	7.46	Orascom Telecom
Ufone GSM	GSM, CDMA	2.57	State-owned
Paktel	GSM, TDMA, AMPS	Not available yet	Millicom
Telenor	GSM	0.83	Telenor
Instaphone	TDMA, AMPS	Not available yet	Millicom
Warid Telecom	GSM	0.51	Abu Dhabi Group

===Philippines=== (as of December 2004) The country had in March 2005 34,800,000 subscribers in total, or a 41.10% penetration rate.

Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
Smart Communications	GSM	14.60	Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company
Globe Telecom¹	GSM	12.51	Ayala Corporation and Singapore Telecommunications
Sun Cellular	GSM	1.20	Digital Telecommunications Philippines
Next Mobile	iDEN	0.031
Extelcom	CDMA	0.01
Mobile Virtual Network Operators
Talk 'N Text (using Smart)	GSM	4.61	Smart Communications
Addict Mobile (using Smart)	GSM		Smart Communications
Touch Mobile (using Globe)	GSM		Globe Telecom

_{1. UMTS service for Globe is in testing stage and is planned for launch by at least 2007.}

Singapore

(as of June 2005)

The country has currently 4,078,400 subscribers in total, or a 96.20% penetration rate.

Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
SingTel Mobile	UMTS, GSM	1.55 [10]	Singapore Telecommunications
StarHub Mobile	UMTS, GSM	1.29 [11]	StarHub
MobileOne	UMTS, GSM	1.24 [12]	MobileOne

===Thailand=== (as of June 2005) The country had in December 2004 28,000,000 subscribers in total, or a 44.12% penetration rate.

Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
Advance Info Service (AIS)	GSM	15.81	Shin Corporation and Singapore Telecommunications
DTAC	GSM	8.24	UCOM and Telenor
Orange	GSM		True Corporation and France Télécom
Hutch	CDMA	0.68	Hutchison Whampoa
Thai Mobile	UMTS, GSM		State-owned

Vietnam

The country had in December 2004 4,960,000 subscribers in total, or a 6.01% penetration rate. List of operators not available yet. To come soon

Europe

===Austria=== (as of August 2005) The country had 8,128,000 subscribers in total.

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	A1	UMTS, GSM	3.30	Telekom Austria
2	T-Mobile	GSM	2.05	Deutsche Telekom
3	One	UMTS, GSM	1.54
4	tele.ring	GSM	0.98	Deutsche Telekom
5	3	UMTS	0.26	Hutchison Whampoa

===Belgium=== (as of June 2005) The country had 8,930,000 subscribers in total.

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Proximus	UMTS, GSM	4.21	Belgacom and Vodafone
2	Mobistar	UMTS, GSM	2.87	France Télécom
3	Base	GSM	1.85	KPN

Bulgaria

The country had in December 2004 4,729,700 subscribers in total, or a 60.41% penetration rate.

Rank	Operator	Technology	Ownership
1	M-Tel¹	GSM	Telekom Austria
2	GloBul	GSM	OTE
3	Viva	GSM	State-owned BTC (Bulgarian Telecommunication Company)

¹ UMTS licence has been acquired by M-Tel in March 2005.

===Czech Republic=== (as of June 2005) The country had 10,834,000 subscribers in total.

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	T-Mobile¹	GSM	4.46	Deutsche Telekom
2	Eurotel Praha (Prague)	GSM	4.42	Český Telekom
3	Oskar Mobil	GSM	1.95	Vodafone

¹ UMTS service for T-Mobile CZ is currently being planned for launch on March 2006.

Finland

The country had in December 2004 4,988,000 subscribers in total, or a 95.63% penetration rate.

Operator	Technology	Ownership
Sonera	UMTS, GSM	Telia Sonera
Elisa (formerly Radiolinja)	UMTS, GSM
DNA Finland	GSM	Finnet
GSM Åland	GSM	Mariehamns Telefon and Ålands Telefonandelslag
Virtual Mobile Network Operators
Saunalahti	GSM
Tele2	GSM
Cubio	GSM

===France=== (as of June 2005) (Metropolitan France only.) The country had 43,884,700 subscribers in total, or a 75.00% penetration rate.

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Orange	GSM	20.67	State-owned France Télécom
1	SFR	GSM	15.69	SFR Cegetel and Vodafone
1	Bouygues Telecom	GSM	7.53	Bouygues group

===Germany=== (as of June 2005) The country had 74,088,000 subscribers in total.

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	T-Mobile	UMTS, GSM	28.18	Deutsche Telekom
2	Vodafone	UMTS, GSM	27.72	Vodafone
3	E-Plus	GSM	9.80	KPN
4	O₂	GSM	8.39	O₂ plc

===Greece=== (as of June 2005) The country had 11,659,600 subscribers in total.

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Cosmote	UMTS, GSM	4.38	OTE
2	Vodafone	GSM	4.17	Vodafone
3	TIM¹	GSM	2.26
4	Q-Telecom²	GSM	0.85	Info-Quest

_{1. Was Telestet until February 2004 but the name is still used coloquially.

2. The newest mobile telecom in Greece uses Vodafone's infrastructure until it builds its own network.}

===Hungary=== (as of August 2005) The country had 9,020,623 subscribers in total, or a 89.40% penetration rate.

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	T-Mobile	GSM	4.09	Deutsche Telekom
2	Pannon GSM	GSM	3.08	Telenor
3	Vodafone	GSM	1.86	Vodafone

Italy

The country had in December 2004 62,750,000 subscribers in total, or a 109.42% penetration rate.

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	TIM	UMTS, GSM	26.3	Telecom Italia
2	Vodafone	UMTS, GSM	17	Vodafone
3	Wind	GSM	7.7	Orascom Telecom
4	3	UMTS	5.2	Hutchison Whampoa

Netherlands

The country had in June 2005 16,660,000 subscribers in total.

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	KPN	GSM	3.9	KPN
2	Vodafone	GSM	3.6	Vodafone
3	Telfort	GSM	2.4	KPN
4	T-Mobile	GSM	2.3	Deutsche Telekom
5	Orange	GSM	1.65	France Telecom

Norway

The country had in December 2004 4,716,090 subscribers in total, or a 102.40% penetration rate.

Rank	Operator	Subscribers (in millions)
1	Telenor	2.5
2	NetCom	1.2

Poland

The country had in June 2005 25,300,000 subscribers in total, or a 65.90% penetration rate.

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscri bers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Era	UMTS, GSM	8.60²	Elektrim and Deutsche Telekom
2	Orange Polska	UMTS¹, GSM	7.44²	TPSA and France Telecom
3	Plus GSM	UMTS, GSM	7.03²	Vodafone, TDC, KGHM, PKN Orlen, PSE
4	Netia Mobile¹	UMTS¹	-	Novator 70% and Netia 30%

_{1. Not yet operational as of September 2005.}

_{2. As of December 2004.}

Portugal

The country had in March 2005 10,642,600 subscribers in total, or a 101.60% penetration rate.

Operator	Technology	Ownership
TMN	UMTS, GSM	Portugal Telecom
Vodafone	UMTS, GSM	Vodafone
Optimus	UMTS, GSM	Sonae, France Télécom
Mobile Virtual Network Operators
Yorn (Young ORiginal Network) (using Vodafone)	UMTS, GSM	Vodafone
rede4 (using Optimus)	GSM	Sonae, France Télécom
UZO (using TMN)	GSM	Portugal Telecom

===Romania=== (as of July 2005) The country had 11,640,000 subscribers in total, or a 53.65% penetration rate.

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Orange Romania	GSM	6.00	France Télécom
2	Connex GSM Romania	UMTS, GSM	5.25	Vodafone
3	Zapp Mobile	CDMA	0.30	Oger Telecom
4	Cosmorom	GSM	0.09	OTE

===Russian Federation=== (as of July 2005) The country had 102,440,000 subscribers in total, or a 70.60% penetration rate. These are the largest mobile phone companies in Russia, by number of subscribers.

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Mobile TeleSystems - MTS	GSM	35.74	AFK Sistema
2	VimpelCom - Bee Line GSM	GSM	35.35	Telenor and Alfa Group
3	MegaFon	GSM	19.15	Telia Sonera, Telecominvest and IPOC International Growth Fund
4	Uralsvyazinform	GSM	2.95
5	SMARTS	GSM	2.39
6	Tele2	GSM	1.91
7	Sibirtelecom	GSM	1.48

Serbia & Montenegro

The country had in December 2004 4,729,600 subscribers in total, or a 44.96% penetration rate.

Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)
MOBTEL	GSM
ProMonte	GSM
MONET	GSM
Mobilna Telefonija Srbija	GSM

===Spain=== (as of June 2005) The country had 40,921,800 subscribers in total.

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	movistar	UMTS, GSM	19.38	Telefónica Móviles
2	Vodafone	UMTS, GSM	11.84	Vodafone
3	Amena¹	UMTS, GSM	9.70	France Télécom

_{1. to be rebranded Orange Spain}

===Sweden=== (as of June 2005)

Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)
Telia	UMTS,GSM	4.32
Tele2Comviq	UMTS,GSM	3.50
Vodafone	UMTS,GSM	1.52
3	UMTS
Spring Mobil	GSM

===Switzerland=== (as of June 2005) The country had 6,426,000 subscribers in total.

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Swisscom Mobile	UMTS, GSM	4.04	State-owned Swisscom and Vodafone
2	Sunrise	GSM	1.23	TDC Group
3	Orange	GSM	1.15	France Télécom

===Turkey=== (as of June 2005) The country had 39,608,677 subscribers in total.

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Turkcell	GSM	25.60	Cukurova Group and Telia Sonera
2	Telsim	GSM	not available yet	Currently possessed by state, to be sold off soon.
3	Avea	GSM	not available yet	Türk Telekom, Telecom Italia and Türk İş Bankası

===Ukraine=== (as of August 2005) The country had 23,000,000 mobile subscribers in total, or a 48.9% penetration rate.

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Ukrainian Mobile Communications	GSM, NMT	~11.0	MTS (100%)
2	Kyivstar	GSM	10.9	Telenor (56.52%), Alfa Group (43.48%)
3	Astelit life:)	GSM	1.1	Turkcell (54.2%), SCM Holdings (45.8%)
4	Ukrainian RadioSystems	GSM	0.1	Optima-Telecom and PRIVAT Group
5	Golden Telecom	GSM	0.06	Golden Telecom Inc. (GLDN)
6	DCC	TDMA	0.04	Turkcell (54.2%), SCM Holdings (45.8%)
-	CDMA operators	CDMA	0.1	ITC Ukraine, Velton, etc.

===United Kingdom=== (as of June 2005) The country had 63,601,000 subscribers in total

Rank	Operator	technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	T-Mobile	UMTS, GSM	16.06	Deutsche Telekom
2	Vodafone	UMTS, GSM	15.49	Vodafone
3	O₂	GSM	14.62	O₂ plc
4	Orange	UMTS, GSM	14.46	France Télécom
5	3	UMTS	3.21 ¹	Hutchison Whampoa

¹ Data as of August 24 2005.

There are also a number of Virtual Mobile Network Operators, including Virgin Mobile, Tesco Mobile, and easyMobile.

Middle East & Africa

===Algeria=== (as of August 2005) The country had 9,879,847 subscribers in total, or a 30.87% penetration rate.

Rank	Operator	technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Djezzy	GSM	5.69	Orascom Telecom
2	Mobilis	GSM	3.19	State-owned Algérie Télécom
3	Nedjma	GSM	1.00	Wataniya Telecom

===Egypt=== (as of August 2005) The country had 11,223,984 subscribers in total.

Rank	Operator	technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	MobiNil [13]	GSM	5.91	Orascom Telecom and France Télécom
2	Vodafone [14]	GSM	5.32	Vodafone

===Kenya=== (as of June 2005) The country had 4,611,070 subscribers in total, or a 14,40% penetration rate.

Rank	Operator	technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Safaricom [15]]	GSM	Not available yet	State-owned Telkom Kenya and Vodafone
2	Celtel [16]	GSM	Not available yet	MTC

===Mauritius=== (as of June 2005 The country had in December 2004 622,565 subscribers in total.

Rank	Operator	technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Cellplus	GSM	0.39	Mauritius Telecom group and France Telecom
2	Emtel	GSM	Not available yet	Millicom International Cellular

===Morocco=== (as of June 2005) The country had 10,725,000 subscribers in total, or a 35.88% penetration rate.

Rank	Operator	technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	IAM (Itissalat al-Maghrib) [17]	GSM	7.19	State-owned Maroc Télécom
2	Méditel [18]	GSM	3.54	Telefónica Móviles and Portugal Telecom

===Mozambique=== (as of May 2005) The country had in December 2004 708,000 subscribers in total, or a 3.73% penetration rate.

Rank	Operator	technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	mCel	GSM	0.77	Partially state-owned
2	Vodacom	GSM	Not available yet	Telkom, Vodafone and VenFin

===Nigeria=== (as of June 2005) The country had 13,316,597 subscribers in total, or a 10.56% penetration rate.

Operator	technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
Glo Mobile [19]	GSM	Not available yet
MTN Nigeria [20]	GSM	6.38	MTN
Mtel [21]	GSM	Not available yet	State-owned Nitel
Vmobile [22]	GSM	Not yet	First Bank of Nigeria and AKIIPOC

Saudi Arabia

The country had in December 2004 9,175,800 subscribers in total, or a 36.82% penetration rate.

Rank	Operator	technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Al Jawal	GSM	Not available yet	State-owned Saudi Telecom
2	Mobily	GSM	Not available yet	Etisalat

===South Africa=== (as of June 2005)

Rank	Operator	technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Vodacom-Vodafone [23]	UMTS, GSM	14.29	Telkom, Vodafone and VenFin
2	MTN [24]	UMTS, GSM	8.41	Mobile Telephone Networks
3	Cell C [25]	GSM	not available yet	Oger Telecom

Sudan

The country had in December 2004 1,048,600 subscribers in total, or a 3.04% penetration rate.

Rank	Operator	technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Mobitel	GSM		Sudatel and MSI Cellular Holdings

===Tunisia=== (as of June 2005) The country had in December 2004 3,575,700 subscribers in total, or a 37.59% penetration rate.

Rank	Operator	technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Tuntel	GSM	Not available yet	State-owned Tunisie Télécom
2	Tunisiana	GSM	1.56	Wataniya Telecom and Orascom Telecom

Sources of information

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 ===Malaysia=== (as of [[June]] [[2005]])
 The country had 16,551,000 subscribers in total, or a 63.30% penetration rate.