América Móvil provides wireless, fixed-line, broadband and pay TV services in 22 countries in the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. At the end of Q1 2025, América Móvil surpassed 400 million global subscribers, comprising 323 million wireless and 78 million fixed-line subscribers, according to its latest report. Read more...

Vodafone is a pan-European and pan-African fixed and mobile telecoms operator. To reshape its European portfolio, it has divested its operations in Italy and Spain and plans to merge with Three UK. Vodafone has agreed a joint venture with AST SpaceMobile to form a European direct-to-device (D2D) service provider. Read more...

Airtel is Africa’s second-largest mobile operator. In a surprise move, it has started negotiating network sharing agreements with its rival MTN in multiple markets. Through the G6 coalition of mobile operators, Airtel is advocating for policymaking that helps drive digital inclusion across Africa. Read more...

e& is a telecoms group headquartered in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and operating in 38 countries across the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Central/Eastern Europe. Its activities include fixed, mobile, digital and enterprise services. In 2022, the company rebranded from the Etisalat Group to e&, standing for “Etisalat and”.… Read more...

Headquartered in Qatar, Ooredoo is a telecoms operator offering mobile, fixed, broadband and enterprise services in the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia. Read more...

Shows the comparative cost of awards in a country in chronological order. Use the table at the bottom to change the bands displayed or to amend the sorting. Details on sourcing and methodology are available here. Read more...

Axiata Group Berhad is a Malaysian telecommunications group with investments across several Asian countries in mobile network operations, communications infrastructure and digital services. Read more...

Reliance Jio Infocomm is the largest mobile operator in India by subscriber count. It is also the second largest operator in the world using the same measure. Only China Mobile is bigger. Read more...

SoftBank Corp, part of the SoftBank Group headed by Masayoshi Son, is a Japanese mobile operator. Read more...

China Mobile, the largest mobile operator in the world, has more than one billion subscribers. It passed that particular milestone in June 2024. As of December 2024, the company had a total subscriber base of 1.004 billion. It is China’s largest mobile operator. The country's total number of mobile subscribers… Read more...