Top 30 Mobile Companies Across The World

Rank	Company	Country	Technology	Total Subscribers
1	China Mobile	China (Mainland)	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	508,370,000
2	Vodafone	United Kingdom	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	427,990,000
3	Telefonica / Movistar / O2	Spain	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	200,850,000
4	America Movil	Argentina	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	194,340,000
5	Orange	France	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	189,000,000
6	Telenor	Norway	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	172,000,000
7	T-Mobile	Germany	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	150,900,000
8	TeliaSonera	Sweden	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	143,900,000
9	China Unicom	China (Mainland)	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	142,800,000
10	Bharti Airtel	India	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	116,160,000
11	Orascom Telecom / WIND	Egypt	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	110,600,000
12	MTN Group	South Africa	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	108,470,000
13	MTS	Russia	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	96,860,000
14	Etisalat	UAE	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	94,000,000
15	Verizon Wireless	USA	cdmaOne	89,000,000
16	Reliance Communications	India	GSM, GPRS	88,930,000
17	AT&T Mobility	USA	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	82,700,000
18	Telkomsel	Indonesia	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	79,770,000
19	Telecom Italia / TIM	Italy	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	71,500,000
20	Zain	Kuwait	GSM, GPRS	69,500,000
21	VimpelCom	Russia	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	63,700,000
22	Axiata Group Berhad	Malaysia	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	62,820,000
23	NTT docomo	Japan	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	55,670,000
24	BSNL	India	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	53,960,000
25	Idea Cellular	India	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	53,350,000
26	Qtel	Qatar	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	52,540,000
27	Tata Teleservices	India	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	51,730,000
28	MegaFon	Russia	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	49,120,000
29	Sprint Nextel	USA	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	48,300,000
30	China Telecom	China (Mainland)	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	46,780,000

How Major Companies Were Named ???

Adobe

The name came from the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

Apache

It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server - thus, the name Apache.

Apple Computers

Favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock.

Cisco

The name is not an acronym but an abbreviation of San Francisco. The company's logo reflects its San Francisco name heritage. It represents a stylized Golden Gate Bridge.

Google

The name started as a jockey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to ‘Google’.

Hotmail

Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing email via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for Hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casings.

Hewlett-Packard

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Intel

Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ' Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

Lotus

Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from the lotus position or 'padmasana.' Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Microsoft

It was coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.

Motorola

Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

Oracle

Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such).

Red Hat

Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone!

SAP

"Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by four ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM.

Sony

From the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

Sun Microsystems

Founded by four Stanford University buddies, Sun is the acronym for Stanford University Network.

Xerox

The Greek root "xer" means dry. The inventor, Chestor Carlson , named his product Xerox as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying.

Yahoo!

The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver's Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.