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This is a list of mobile network operators of the Americas.


Anguilla


Antigua and Barbuda

The country has a 127% penetration rate.


Argentina

The country has a 147% penetration rate = 61.2m mobile subscribers (February 2014)


Aruba

The country's telecom regulator is the DTZ


Bahamas

The country has 0.318 million subscribers in total, or an 84% penetration rate. (September 2015)


Barbados

The country's telecom regulator is the Telecom Unit, under the Division of Energy and Telecommunications within the Prime Minister's Office.


Belize


Bermuda


Bolivia

The country has 10.2 million subscribers in total for a population of 10.56 million, or a 96.3% penetration rate. (December 2015) The country's telecom regulator is ATT.


Bonaire


Brazil

The country has 261.3 million subscribers in total, or a 121,62% penetration rate. (Aug 2022)
Anatel The National Telecommunications Agency ( pt, Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações) or Anatel is a special agency in Brazil created by the general telecommunications act (Law 9472, 16/07/1997) in 1997 and governed by Decree 2338 of 07/10/1997. ...
regulates the country's
telecommunications Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that fe ...
. Technologies like AMPS, TDMA, iDEN and
CDMA Code-division multiple access (CDMA) is a channel access method used by various radio communication technologies. CDMA is an example of multiple access, where several transmitters can send information simultaneously over a single communicatio ...
1x/EV-DO were used in the past by some of those networks and have been phased out in favor of newer systems. On 20 April 2022, Oi’s mobile network operations were sold to its three largest competitors, Vivo, Claro and TIM. Over the next twelve months, customers will be redirected to the other three carriers based on their area codes.


British Virgin Islands


Canada

The country's telecom regulator is the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). However, it does not regulate most aspects of mobile phone service; prices and service quality are not regulated at all, while spectrum allocation is handled by
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED; french: Innovation, Sciences et Développement économique Canada; french: ISDE, label=none)''Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada'' is the applied title under the Federal I ...
. There are numerous mobile virtual network operators, such as Virgin Mobile Canada. These are not presently listed due to difficulty retrieving data for all such operators, and uncertainty as to whether the figures below include MVNOs operating on the applicable networks.


Cayman Islands

The British overseas territory has ? million subscribers in total, or a 5% penetration rate.


Chile

The country's telecom regulator is Subsecretaría de Telecomunicaciones (Subtel), and, as of June 2022, has 26.29 million subscribers in total, including prepaid and postpaid customers, and a 132.57% penetration rate.


Colombia

The country has 77.8 million subscribers in total. (Second Trimester 2022) The country's telecom regulator is the CRC (Comisión de Regulación de Comunicaciones).


Costa Rica

The country has 7.1 million subscribers in total; with 4.76 million people there are about 149 mobile lines for every 100 citizens (149% penetration rate). Until 2011,
Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad ( en, Costa Rican Institute of Electricity) (ICE) is the Costa Rican government-run electricity and telecommunications services provider. Together with the Radiographic Costarricense SA (RACSA) and Compañ ...
had a monopoly on wireless communications. In November 2011, after the market was open as required by DR-CAFTA, Claro and Movistar started service. The country's telecom regulator is SUTEL (Spanish)


Cuba

The country has over 6 million subscribers in total, or a 45% penetration rate as of December 2019.


Curaçao


Dominica


Dominican Republic

The country has 8.8 million subscribers as of December 2019.La fusión de Altice no alteró el liderazgo de Claro en República Dominicana
- TeleSemana, 19 December 2018
The country's telecom regulator is Indotel.


Ecuador

The country has 113% penetration rate = 17.5m mobile subscribers (February 2014) The country's telecom regulator is Arcotel.


El Salvador

The country has 8.8 million subscribers in total for a population of 6.1 million, or a 144% penetration rate. (Dec 2015) The country's telecom regulator is SIGET.


Falkland Islands

The telecom regulator is Falkland Islands Communications Regulator (FICR).


France

The telecom regulator is the ''
Autorité de Régulation des Communications Électroniques, des Postes et de la Distribution de la Presse The Autorité de Régulation des Communications Électroniques, des Postes et de la Distribution de la Presse (ARCEP or Arcep) is an independent French agency in charge of regulating telecommunications, postal services and print media distribution i ...
''.


Greenland

Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland i ...
has 0.053 million subscribers in total, or a 93.32% penetration rate. (December 2009)


Grenada


Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana (Guyane)

As of September 2012, the penetration rate was 153% for Guadeloupe (0.449 million inhabitants), 148% for Martinique (0.396 m.inh.) and 127% for French Guiana (0.236 m.inh.).


Guatemala

The country has 19,113,800 subscribers in total, or a 115% penetration rate. (June 2017) The country's telecom regulator is SIT.


Guyana

The country has a 66.4% penetration rate (2016). The country's telecom regulator is the Guyana Telecommunications Agency.


Haiti


Honduras

The country has 7.45 million subscribers in total, or a 93.5% penetration rate. (2018) The country's telecom regulator is CONATEL.


Jamaica

The country has 3.5 million subscribers in total, or a 129% penetration rate (September 2015). The country's telecom regulator is the Spectrum Management Authority.


Mexico

The country has 112 million subscribers in total, or a 91.6% penetration rate. (March 2017) The country's current telecom regulator is IFETEL (IFT).


Montserrat


Nicaragua

The country has 6.8 million subscribers in total, or a 115% penetration rate. (2013)


Panama

The country has 4.96 Million subscribers in total, or 123 active mobile phones per 100 inhabitants according to ASEP. (December 2016)


Paraguay

The country has 7.34 Million subscribers in total, or a 109% penetration rate. The country's telecom regulator is CONATEL. (Nov 2015)


Peru

The country has 37.3 million subscribers in total for a population of 30.4 million, or a 123% penetration rate. (Mar. 2017) The country's telecom regulator is OSIPTEL.


Puerto Rico and United States Virgin Islands

These U.S. territories have 3 million subscribers in total, or an 84% penetration rate. (June 2012). The telecom regulator for Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands at federal level is the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The local telecom regulator for Puerto Rico is the Junta Reglamentadora de Telecomunicaciones de Puerto Rico (JRTPR) The local telecom regulator for USVI is the USVI Public Services Commission (USVIPSC) # Currently unable to determine T-Mobile and TracFone subscriber numbers without the United States' subscribers.


Saint Kitts and Nevis

The country has approximately 25,000 subscribers in total.


Saint Lucia


Saint Vincent and the Grenadines


Suriname

The country has 0.81 million subscribers in total, or a 146% penetration rate. (2016). The regulator is the Telecommunicatie Authoriteit Suriname (TAS).


Trinidad and Tobago

At the end of 2021, the country has 2.00 million subscribers in total, or a 146% penetration rate. The regulator is
Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago The Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago is the organisation that regulates telecommunications and broadcasting services in Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the ...
(TATT)


Turks and Caicos Islands


United States

Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in the United States lease wireless telephone and data service from major carriers such as AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile US, and Verizon Wireless, as well as regional carrier United States Cellular Corporation for resale. The largest operator of MVNOs is
TracFone Wireless TracFone Wireless, Inc. (TFWI) is an American prepaid, no-contract mobile phone provider. TFWI is a subsidiary of Verizon Communications, and offers products and services under several brands. It operates as a mobile virtual network operator ( ...
with over 25 million subscribers. The country's telecom regulator is the
U.S. Federal Communications Commission The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdictio ...
. # T-Mobile and AT&T US numbers include Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands subscribers. # T-Mobile and Sprint uses the GCI network in Alaska.


Uruguay

As of June 2020, Uruguay has 5.3 million mobile subscribers in total, with a penetration rate over ???%.Informe de mercado de telecomunicaciones de Uruguay
- URSEC, June 2020
The country's telecom regulator is URSEC.


Venezuela

The country has 20.7 million subscribers in December 2018, a 33% drop versus December 2013.Venezuela perdió 10 millones de líneas celulares entre 2013 y 2018
- América Digital, 12 July 2019
The country's telecom regulator is CONATEL.


See also

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List of mobile network operators of the Asia Pacific region This is a list of all mobile phone carriers in the Asia Pacific Region and their respective number of subscribers. Afghanistan The country's telecom regulator is the Afghanistan Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (ATRA). American Samoa , Am ...
*
List of mobile network operators of Europe A mobile network operator or MNO (also known as a wireless service provider, wireless carrier, cellular company, or mobile network carrier) is a provider of wireless communications services. The main MNOs in Europe are listed below. Albania A ...
*
List of mobile network operators of the Middle East and Africa This is a list of mobile network operators of the Middle East and Africa. Algeria In Q2 of 2021, the penetration rate was estimated at 104.13% over a population estimate of 44.02 million. The telecom regulator in Algeria iAutorité de Régulati ...
* List of mobile network operators worldwide *
List of telecommunications regulatory bodies This article is a list of the legal regulatory bodies that govern telecommunications systems in different countries. This list contains bodies ensuring effective regulatory role in a territory which is not necessarily a state, but is listed as "t ...
* Mobile Network Codes in ITU region 3xx (North America) * Mobile Network Codes in ITU region 7xx (South America)


References


External links


GSM Association (official site)

Americas list of GSM, iDEN and CDMA operators
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mobile Network Operators Of The Americas, List Of Americas-related lists
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