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Ranking the world's global wireless operators

October 19, 2009 — 9:25am ET | By Mike Dano
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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.

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Posted by german | October 19, 2009 - 12:46pm

Last year at the european mobile meeting there where intentions to determine from the user of services point of view, the quality measuring system of providers. It would be quite interesting to compare and rate providers by means of how clients look at their services....not just ARPU. I personally have lines w/ Movistar, ATT, Telmex, Virgin, Telstra, and vodaphone in 3 continents... and this would help to get better services at right times. What do you think?

Posted by Varun Arora | October 19, 2009 - 10:09pm

I'd certainly be interested in readers' feedback on the top operators by VAS approachability (willingness and openness in trying new services) as well as success with innovative VAS (excluding "standard" VAS like pure data and SMS).

This would certainly be helpful to companies like HomeCamera (we won the Broadband World Forum Award this year and are now looking at selectively working with telcos and ISPs globally). I'm confident it would help other similar companies as well.

- Varun Arora
Founder, HomeCamera
www.homecamera.com

Posted by Anonymous | October 20, 2009 - 10:14am

It would be nice to see a 200-page report with customer-ranking data on various service and operational features. It seems like every "study" that is performed has data for accounting and marketing departments. Why? Because the marketing dept. creates the PO to buy the report and the accounting dept. pays the bill.

Posted by najeebullah | October 27, 2009 - 2:09am

best of luck

Posted by Tawhid1982 | December 28, 2009 - 8:35pm

The chart for the top 20 mobile operators in the world for 2008 CE is misleading if not entirely wrong.

Such entreprises as Saudi Telecom Company with revenues in excess of US$13 billion in exchange rate terms is not included, while Vodafone is not included under one banner but several separate ones.

It would be better if actual subscriber numbers, or revenues, profits, profitability and growth rates were included in such rankings. Purchasing Power Parity corrections is another important factor missing from these calculations as exchange rate values are often very misleading for various reasons including exchange rate fluctuations, under/over valuation of certain currencies, speculation leading to collapse or rise of certain currencies' values and so on.

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