The 25 Biggest Companies in Mobile - by their revenues in mobile only - an "Ahonen 25" Index?

Well, if I've been up all night, it can only mean one thing - I was playing with my statistics. I had been meaning to do this for quite some while but last night the inspiration hit me, and I went at it. I think I may have created something honestly unique for our industry: A listing of the 25 largest companies in the mobile industry, ranked only by their mobile-related revenues. What I mean is that if you take Vodafone, a mobile telecoms giant, they also have some fixed telecoms assets. How big is the 'mobile-only' side of Vodafone? And what of Nokia if we keep the phones and those parts of the networking business which is mobile, but exclude that part of NokiaSiemens Networks which is fixed landline business. And with Samsung, not counting the plasma screen TVs and laptop PCs, only mobile. You get the picture. And once I had this for the biggest companies related to mobile, I then ranked them by revenues.

This was a voluntary, freebie, hobby type of project, so I was not going to get very precise. But am sure the numbers are very respective of the relative value of the mobile parts of each of these 'companies' - what they would in fact be generating if they were spun off as independent corporations (some are purely mobile business already, like China Mobile for example). Note I have often created a made-up name for the company to indicate its mobile-only nature.

I have never seen anything like this in the public domain. If any of our readers has found something like this, please let me know and I can go and compare. But for our readers, here is, for want of a better name for it, the 2010 "Ahonen Index Top 25 of Mobile Industry"

1   Vodafone Mobile, UK . . . . . . . .  $ 67 B . . . mobile operator
2   Nokia Mobile, Finland . . . . . . . . $ 66 B . . . handset manufacturer
3   China Mobile, China . . . . . . . . . $ 65 B . . . mobile operator
4   Verizon Wireless, USA . . . . . . . $ 62 B . . . mobile operator
5   Telefonica Movil, Spain . . . . . . . .$ 55 B . . . mobile operator

6   T-Mobile, Germany . . . . . . . . . . .$ 50 B . . . mobile operator
7   AT&T Wireless, USA . . . . . . . . . $ 49 B . . . mobile operator
8   Orange Mobile, France . . . . . . . . $ 47 B . . . mobile operator
9   TIM, Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 40 B . . . mobile operator
10  Samsung Mobile, South Korea . . $ 38 B . . . handset manufacturer

11  NTT DoCoMo, Japan . . . . . . . . . $ 37 B . . . mobile operator
12  Sprint Nextel, USA . . . . . . . . . . $ 36 B . . . mobile operator
13  America Movil, Mexico . . . . . . . .$ 31 B . . . mobile operator
14  KDDI Mobile, Japan . . . . . . . . . .$ 25 B . . . mobile operator
15  LM Ericsson Mobile, Sweden . . .$ 24 B . . . network infrastructure vendor

16  China Unicom, China . . . . . . . . .$ 22 B . . . mobile operator
17  Motorola Mobile, USA . . . . . . . . $ 21 B . . . handset manufacturer
18  Huawei Mobile, China . . . . . . . . .$ 19 B . . . network infrastructure vendor
19  Softbank Mobile, Japan . . . . . . . $ 18 B . . . mobile operator
20  Alcatel-Lucent Mobile, France . .  $ 16 B . . . network infrastructure vendor

21  Apple iPhone, USA . . . . . . . . . . $ 13 B . . . handset manufacturer
22  SK Telecom, South Korea . . . . . $ 12 B . . . mobile operator
23  RIM, Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 11 B . . . handset manufacturer
24  Telenor Mobile, Norway . . . . . . . $ 11 B . . . mobile operator
25  MTS, Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 10 B . . . mobile operator

So 10 companies of the Top 25 are from Europe, 8 from Asia and 7 from North America. Not how incredibly widely the industry global leadership is spread - across 15 countries including 5 giants based out of the Emerging World economies (3 in China, 1 in Mexico and 1 in Russia). In fact of the Top 10 biggest companies, they are based out of 9 separate countries.

Very clearly, the USA, Finland/Scandinavia and Japan do not hold the global control of this industry. Out of the Top 25 biggest companies, only 11 reside in the 'traditional' leadership countries of mobile telecoms - Scandinavia (Finland, Norway and Sweden have 1 company each, for total of 3); Japan has 3, and the USA has 5 of the biggest giants of the mobile industry. 14 out of the Top 25 are based in 'other countries' than these three regions of traditional mobile industry leadership. As to their industry sub-sectors, listing their primary business focus (many do multiple things) 17 are mobile operators (carriers), 5 are handset makers, and 3 infrastructure providers.

There you have it. I would love any feedback, if you see an obvious company missing for some reason (I believe I have checked all the obvious ones like Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Telstra, Hutchison, TeliaSonera etc. Don't just send a 'suggestion' haha, but if you are convinced some company does earn more than ten billion dollars annually out of their mobile-specific business) I'd love to hear about it. And if you do know of any similar listing that is specific to mobile, covers all network operators/carriers, handsets and infrastructure vendors (and any others if relevant), please let me know.

You may freely reference this "Ahonen Index" haha, and please do link back to this blog if you do. I hope to have similar passion a year from now, perhaps I could make this an annual listing haha.. (and yes, for other less esoteric stats of the mobile industry, take a look at the TomiAhonen Almanac 2010)

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