List of telephone operating companies


This list identifies the fixed line operators and the mobile operators for the top 200 most populous countries in the world.
The list of countries and their populations is from List of countries by population. The CIA World Factbook is cited as the standard reference for the number of main lines for each of the listed countries.
List of countries by number of broadband Internet subscriptions is cited as the standard reference for the number of fixed broadband subscribers for each of the listed countries. The country naming convention follows the ISO 3166-1 standard as published by the International Organization for Standardization.

World's largest telecom companies by total revenue

The world's largest telecommunications companies measured by total revenues.
RankCompanyTotal revenue Country
1AT&T$170.8 United States
2Verizon Communications$131.8 United States
3Nippon Telegraph and Telephone$107.1 [|Japan]
4Comcast$95.5 United States
5Softbank$86.7 Japan
6Deutsche Telekom$86.5 Germany
7Telefónica$57.4 [|Spain]
8China Telecom$57.0 China
9América Móvil$52.7 [|Mexico]
10Vodafone$50.5 United Kingdom
11Orange$48.9 France
12China Unicom$44.0 China
13Charter Communications$43.6 United States
14Telstra$41.2 [|Australia]
15KDDI$34.8 Japan
16Sprint$33.4 United States
17BT Group$30.3 United Kingdom
18CenturyLink$23.4 United States
19Telecom Italia$22.8 [|Italy]
20KT Corporation$21.3 South Korea
21BCE$18.1 Canada
22China Communications Services$16.0 China
23Vivendi$15.9 France
24SK Telecom$15.4 South Korea
25Saudi Telecom$13.9 [|Saudi Arabia]
26Telenor$13.6 [|Norway]
27Etisalat$12.3 United Arab Emirates
28LG Uplus$12.1 South Korea
29Bharti Airtel$12.0 India
30Swisscom$11.9 [|Switzerland]
31Rogers Communications$11.6 Canada
32Cox Communications$11.0 United States
33Telus$10.9 Canada
34MTN Group$10.2 South Africa
35Telia Company$9.6 [|Sweden]
36Telkom Indonesia$9.1 Indonesia
37VimpelCom$9.1 [|Netherlands]
38Frontier Communications$8.6 United States
39Ooredoo$8.2 [|Qatar]
40Mobile TeleSystems$7.6 [|Russia]
41Chunghwa Telecom$7.0 [|Taiwan]
42KPN$6.9 Netherlands
43Optus$6.6 Australia
44Proximus$6.6 Belgium
45SingTel$6.2 Singapore
46United Internet$5.9 Germany
47Virgin Media$5.8 United Kingdom
48Oi$5.7 [|Brazil]
49Windstream Holdings$5.7 United States
50Crown Castle International$5.4 United States
51Telecom [|Argentina]$5.4 Argentina
52Advanced Info Service$5.3 [|Thailand]
53Vodafone Idea Limited$5.3 India
54Telephone and Data Systems$5.4 United States
55A1 Telekom Austria Group$5.9 Austria
56MegaFon$4.8 Russia
57Zain$4.3 [|Kuwait]
58Millicom$4.1 Luxembourg
59Turkcell$4.0 [|Turkey]
60Taiwan Mobile$3.9 Taiwan
61Turk Telekom$3.9 Turkey
62OTE$3.8 [|Greece]
63Du $3.7 United Arab Emirates
64PLDT$3.1 [|Philippines]
65Jio$2.6 India
65Zayo Group$2.6 United States
67Tata Communications$2.5 India
68Maxis Communications$2.2 [|Malaysia]
69Mediacom$2.0 United States
70Granite Telecommunications$1.5 United States
71GTT Communications$1.5 United States
72IDT Corporation$1.5 United States
73Cincinnati Bell$1.4 United States
74Consolidated Communications$1.4 United States
75Eir $1.39 Republic of [|Ireland]
76Vocus Group$1.3 Australia
77RCS&RDS$1.2 Romania
78Cable One$1.1 United States
79Vonage$1.0 United States

Note: When $USD revenues unavailable from reliable sites, currency conversions for 2018 revenues are based on the closing currency exchange rate on the last day of 2018.

Countries by alphabetical order

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The following countries are not included in this list. These countries have populations less than 100,000 or less than 10,000 main lines, according to the latest population estimates.

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This country had 0.159 million main lines in use in 1995.

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[Italy]

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[Mexico]

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Nepal is the first country to provide 3G general service in South Asia, followed by Sri Lanka, via Nepal Telecom. 3G service is available throughout the country, including Everest Base Camp. 4G LTE WIMAX service has been recently provided at minimum cost at spots in major cities including government offices, public places, malls, shopping centres, hospitals, restaurant, and public parks. It is also freely available in places of religious worship. Climbers of Mount Everest can use video call and other 3G services at the top of the mountain at no cost. LTE services have been installed in many base camps.

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[Romania]

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[São Tomé]

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[Saudi Arabia]

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[South Africa]

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Dialog Broadband Networks, Lanka Bell, Sri Lanka Telecom are entitled to provide pay phone services according to their licences.

[Sudan]

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[Tonga]

The country had 0.030 million main lines in use in 2012.

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[Trinidad and Tobago]

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[United States Virgin Islands]

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