{"id":147277,"date":"2024-11-05T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/mobile-monsters-the-worlds-biggest-operators"},"modified":"2024-11-06T05:36:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T19:36:57","slug":"mobile-monsters-the-worlds-biggest-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=147277","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Monsters: The World\u2019s Biggest Operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\">\n <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/mobile-monsters-the-worlds-biggest-operators\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/hubfs\/2024\/Blog%20Assets\/AdobeStock_207635897-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Mobile Monsters: The World\u2019s Biggest Operators\" class=\"hs-featured-image\" style=\"width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\"> <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Earlier this year, China Mobile hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commsupdate.com\/articles\/2024\/08\/09\/china-mobile-books-5-uptick-in-net-profit-as-mobile-subs-pass-1bn\/?__hstc=45788219.8ea31bac8dbac171b35c9eeabf98d710.1729882969102.1729882969102.1729882969102.1&amp;__hssc=45788219.1.1729882969103&amp;__hsfp=3990537976\">one billion mobile subscriptions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a country of more than 1.4 billion people, this may not seem like a remarkable milestone. However, the next largest national cellco, Reliance Jio in India, has less than half of this number\u2014around 476 million subscriptions as of mid-2024.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s take a closer look at China Mobile and the other giant operators.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/track.hubspot.com\/__ptq.gif?a=594292&amp;k=14&amp;r=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.telegeography.com%2Fmobile-monsters-the-worlds-biggest-operators&amp;bu=https%253A%252F%252Fblog.telegeography.com&amp;bvt=rss\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" style=\"min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important; \"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, China Mobile hit one billion mobile subscriptions.<br \/>\nIn a country of more than 1.4 billion people, this may not seem like a remarkable milestone. However, the next largest national cellco, Reliance Jio in India, has less than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5034,5029,5035,864],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5g","category-customer","category-retail","category-trends"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147381,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147277\/revisions\/147381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}