Satellite Based
This is a list of the world's five largest satellite phone network operators measured by number of subscribers.
| Rank | Operator | Technology | Subscribers |
Ownership |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iridium | Proprietary TDMA | 0.500 | |
| 2 | Globalstar | Proprietary CDMA | 0.439 | |
| 3 | Thuraya | Proprietary FDMA/GSM | 0.260 | Etisalat(28%) |
| 4 | Inmarsat | Proprietary GSM | 0.254 | |
| 5 | ACeS | Dual-mode Satellite/GSM | 0.020 |
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