Table of contents
1 World
2 United States
3 Romania
4 Sources of information

World

These are the world's largest mobile phone companies, by number of subscribers. The primary cellular technology used by each carrier is shown in parentheses.

United States

These are the largest mobile phone companies in the United States, by number of subscribers. The primary cellular technology used by each carrier is shown in parentheses.

  • Verizon Wireless (IS-2000) - 36 million
  • Cingular (IS-136, GSM) - 23 million
  • AT&T Wireless (IS-136, GSM) - 21.9 million
  • Sprint PCS (IS-2000) - 19.3 million
  • Nextel (iDEN) - 12.3 million
  • T-Mobile (GSM) - 12.1 million

In North America, IS-2000 is commonly known as CDMA. IS-136 is known as TDMA. However, CDMA and TDMA are general terms that can refer to several different technologies.

Romania

These are the largest mobile phone companies in Romania. Romania has 5,567,000 million subscribers in total (June 2003).

NOTE: Connex subscriber figure of 3,000,000 is as of October 2003.

Sources of information