Asian Mobile Operators Well-Represented in Global Top 20

Docomo places 6th in global revenue

Here’s an interesting report from Wireless Intelligence ranking the top 20 global mobile operators according to revenue.

As you might expect, China Mobile is way out front with revenue of almost US$20 million in Q4 2010. Japanese provider NTT Docomo comes in sixth at 11.5 billion, but did so with a fraction of the customer base (57.2 million as opposed to China Mobile’s 584 million). Other Japanese operators, au (KDDI) and Softbank finished at 11 and 13 respectively.

Examining the year-on-year growth percentage from the report tells a far different story however, as Indian provider Bharti Airtel posted a 63.6 percent gain. China Unicom also did well improving 21.5 percent on the previous year, as did Softbank at 14 percent.

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