List of telephone operating companies
This is a list of the world's largest telecommunications companies measured by total revenues.
This list identifies the Fixed Line operators and the Mobile operators for the top 200 most populated countries in the world.
The list of countries and their populations are from List of countries by population The CIA World Factbook is cited as the standard reference for the number of main lines for each of the listed countries.
List of countries by number of broadband Internet subscriptions is cited as the standard reference for the number of fixed broadband subscribers for each of the listed countries. The country naming convention follows the ISO 3166-1 standard as published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
The following countries are not included in this list. These countries have populations less than 100,000 or less than 10,000 main lines, according to the latest population estimates.
==Benin==.
This country had 0.159 million main lines in use in 1995
In India, private operators Reliance, Tata Teleservices and Virgin Mobile offer dual mode operations, i.e. CDMA & GSM services. Now HFCL and Videocon (datacom), as per brand sharing agreement, have dual mode operation in Punjab. BSNL and MTNL are also in CDMA and GSM mobile services.
Though T24 and Virgin Mobile India are often termed as MVNO, these are actually services of TTSL. TTSL sells their services using these brand names. So neither Virgin Mobile India nor T24 is a true MVNO. In India there is no policy for MVNO as of November 2014.
MTNL was the first operator to roll out 3G services. Later BSNL, another state-owned telecom operator, also started 3G services. MTNL has wide 3G coverage over two metros, Delhi and Mumbai. BSNL has 3G coverage in all circles except Mumbai and Delhi. Currently BSNL has 3G coverage in more than 800 cities of India, and offers free roaming in Delhi and Mumbai using MTNL's network.
India completed a 3G airwave( GSM) auction for private operators and allocated 3G airwaves in September 2010 to the winners. Aircel, Airtel, Idea Cellular, Reliance (GSM), S Tel, Tata Teleservices (Tata Docomo) and Vodafone won licenses for 3G services. No operator won a pan-India 3G license.
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