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List of Indian wireless communications service providers

 (November 2009). The five largest (in order of subscribers) are Airtel (116.16 million),Reliance Communications (88.93 million), Vodafone Essar (85.83 million), BSNL (53.96 million) and Idea Cellular (53.35 million).

Rank	Operator	Technology	Frequency	Subscribers (in millions) As of February 2010 [1]	Ownership
1	Airtel	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	GSM 900/1800	124.61	Bharti Enterprises (64.76%) SingTel (30.84%) Vodafone (4.4%)
2	Reliance Communications	CdmaOne GSM, EVDO, WiMAX	CDMA2000 1x	100.10	Reliance - Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
3	Vodafone Essar	GSM, EDGE	GSM 900/1800	97.22	Vodafone (67%) Essar Group (33%)
4	Tata Indicom	CDMA, GSM, GPRS, WiMAX, EVDO	CDMA2000 1x	64.29	Tata Indicom--Tata Group Tata DoCoMo--Tata Group, (74%) & NTT DoCoMo, (26%)
5	Idea Cellular	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	GSM 1800	62.14	Aditya Birla Group Axiata Group Berhad (15%)
6	BSNL	GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS CdmaOne, EVDO, WiMAX	GSM 900, CDMA2000 1x	61.00	State-owned
7	Aircel	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	GSM 900/1800	34.86	Maxis Communications (74%) Apollo Hospital (26%)
8	MTNL	GSM, HSPDA, CDMA (Delhi Area)	GSM 900, CDMA2000 1x	4.69	State-owned
9	MTS India	CDMA	CDMA2000 1x	3.55	Sistema (73.71%) Shyam Group    (23.79%)
10	Loop Mobile	GSM, GPRS	GSM 900(Mumbai)/1800	2.77	Essar Group
11	Ping Mobile	GSM		0.49	HFCL Group
12	Virgin Mobile India	using Tata Teleservices CDMA		Unknown	Virgin Mobile (50%) Tata Teleservices (50%)
13	Uninor	GSM, GPRS		3.55	Telenor (67.25%) Unitech Group (32.75%)
14	S Tel	GSM, GPRS		0.7	Siva Group    (51%) Batelco (49%)
15	Etisalat DB Telecom	GSM, GPRS		Yet to launch	Etisalat Dynamix Balwas Group
15	Videocon Mobile Services	GSM, GPRS		Unknown	Videocon Industries