Vodafone; Airtel and Orange among Top 20 largest mobile operators globally

October 22, 2012 admin News 0

UK’s Vodafone Group – which owns Kenya’s Safaricom and Tanzania’s Vodacom; India’s Bharti Airtel – which owns Airtel Kenya as well as France Telecom’s Orange– which has a majority stake in Telkom Kenya, have emerged among the Top 20 largest mobile operators in the world according Wireless Intelligence ‘Scoreboard.’

According to the latest rankings – for Q2 2012 – Bharti Airtel comes in a position 4, two positions behind UK’s Vodafone Group which comes in at position two globally while France Telecom Orange – with operations in 16 African countries – comes in at position 12.

Below is the list of the Top 20 Operators Globally

	Operator	Year-on-Year Growth	Connections/ Subscribers (in millions)	Revenues (US $ billion)
1	China Mobile	11 %	683.08	22.05
2	Vodafone Group	5 %	386.88	13.92
3	America Movil Group	7 %	251.83	7.98
4	Bharti Airtel	13 %	250.04	3.04
5	Telefonica Group	7 %	243.51	11.4
6	China Unicom	21%	219.25	4.95
7	VimpelCom Group	7%	205.05	4.58
8	Reliance Communications	8%	154.60	0.48
9	Telenor Group	24%	152.74	2.55
10	China Telecom	33%	144.18	3.37
11	MTN Group	14%	136.59	3.85
12	France Telecom Group	57%	133.38	7.18
13	Telkomsel Group	15%	117.24	1.43
14	Idea Cellular	23%	117.16	1.00
15	Sistema Group	3%	114.51	2.54
16	Verizon Wireless	5%	111.37	15.78
17	Deutsche Telekom Group	2%	107.86	8.38
18	AT&T	7%	105.21	14.77
19	Telecom Italia	16%	101.10	4.10
20	BSNL	5%	98.28	0.44