Insights · Updated 2026-08

The largest mobile operators in the world (2026)

As of 2026-08, the largest mobile network operator in the world is China Mobile (China) with about 1,009 million subscribers, roughly 58.2% of its home market. The full ranking below is computed from the MCC-MNC.dev dataset — every listed operator with a published subscriber figure, one row per operator per country.

#	Operator	Country	Subscribers	Market share
1	China Mobile	China	1,009M	58.2%
2	Jio	India	472M	40.5%
3	China Telecom	China	441M	25.4%
4	AirTel	India	387M	33.1%
5	China Unicom	China	242M	14%
6	Telkomsel	Indonesia	154M	60.3%
7	Verizon	United States	147M	36.8%
8	T-Mobile	United States	142M	35.7%
9	AT&T	United States	110M	27.5%
10	Vivo	Brazil	103M	39.9%
11	Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison	Indonesia	94M	36.9%
12	3	Indonesia	94M	36.9%
13	Claro	Brazil	87.65M	34%
14	BSNL Mobile	India	87.02M	7.5%
15	Grameenphone	Bangladesh	85.9M	45.5%
16	MTS	Russia	83.4M	31.1%
17	Telcel	Mexico	83.2M	74.3%
18	NTT docomo	Japan	82.632M	45.4%
19	MegaFon	Russia	79.37M	29.6%
20	Jazz	Pakistan	75.42M	36.3%
21	Telekom	Germany	75.32M	66%
22	MTN	Nigeria	74.04M	39.7%
23	Smartfren	Indonesia	69.4M	27.2%
24	XL	Indonesia	69.4M	27.2%
25	Fren/Hepi	Indonesia	69.4M	27.2%
26	Viettel Mobile	Vietnam	66M	54.5%
27	Globe	Philippines	63.1M	45.3%
28	TIM	Brazil	61.42M	23.8%
29	au	Japan	60.398M	33.2%
30	SMART	Philippines	59M	42.4%

Method: figures are compiled and curated by MCC-MNC.dev from public and proprietary sources, manually reviewed (CC BY-SA 4.0) and reflect each operator's most recent published subscriber count, which can differ in reporting date between operators. Explore the underlying rows in the registry or query the free API.