Ranking the world's global wireless operators
The following chart ranks the world's wireless carriers by a variety of metrics, from overall revenues to ARPU to market share to churn rates. While most of these types of rankings focus on the size of the world's operators by the number of subscribers (like this list), analyst firm Portio Research took its research a step further by evaluating the world's top operators via a wide range of financial and operational metrics. The result is a much clearer view into which operators are succeeding in the market--rather than which are simply gaining the largest number of subscribers.
A few caveats: This report uses year-end 2008 data as a comparative point in time. Since many of the 600 operators worldwide covered by this report don't report data promptly or regularly, Portio was forced to pick a point in time when it could compare everyone.
