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Written by Dave Burstein
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Monday, 22 October 2012 04:41 |
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Big names don't make top 15. The Wireless Intelligence rankings makes clear the market has shifted to Asia and a few large groups. http://bit.ly/TrNxEC . By sales, however, Verizon and AT&T are #2 & #3. Only some of that is the high U.S. percentage of smartphones and take rate on data. U.S. prices are yet again marked as the highest. At http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/technology/americans-paying-more-for-lte-service.html, Kevin O'Brien reports GSM Association data that Americans are paying twice as much as Europeans. Important data below.
| Rank | Operator-group | Connections (millions) 1 | YoY Growth, connections | YoY Growth, rank | Mobile Revenue (US$ billion) |
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| 1 |
China Mobile |
683.08 |
11% |
- |
22.05 |
| 2 |
Vodafone Group |
386.88 |
5% |
- |
13.92 |
| 3 |
América Móvil Group |
251.83 |
7% |
- |
7.98 |
| 4 |
Bharti Airtel Group |
250.04 |
13% |
+1 |
3.04 |
| 5 |
Telefónica Group |
243.51 |
7% |
-1 |
11.40 |
| 6 |
China Unicom |
219.25 |
21% |
+1 |
4.95 |
| 7 |
VimpelCom Group 2 |
205.05 |
7% |
-1 |
4.58 |
| 8 |
Reliance Communications |
154.60 |
8% |
- |
0.48 |
| 9 |
Telenor Group |
152.74 |
24% |
- |
2.55 |
| 10 |
China Telecom |
144.18 |
33% |
+2 |
3.37 |
| 11 |
MTN Group |
136.59 |
14% |
-1 |
3.85 |
| 12 |
France Telecom Group |
133.38 |
57% |
+9 |
7.18 |
| 13 |
Telkomsel Group |
117.24 |
15% |
+2 |
1.43 |
| 14 |
Idea Cellular |
117.16 |
23% |
+3 |
1.00 |
| 15 |
Sistema Group 3 |
114.51 |
3% |
-4 |
2.54 |
| 16 |
Verizon Wireless |
111.37 |
5% |
-3 |
15.78 |
| 17 |
Deutsche Telekom Group |
107.86 |
2% |
-3 |
8.38 |
| 18 |
AT&T |
105.21 |
7% |
-2 |
14.77 |
| 19 |
Telecom Italia |
101.10 |
16% |
+1 |
4.10 |
| 20 |
BSNL |
98.28 |
5% |
-2 |
0.44 |
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