List of United States mobile phone companies

The country has 271 million subscribers in total, or a 88.8% penetration rate. (December 2008)

The country's telcom regulator is FCC.

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Verizon Wireless •Includes Alltel	CdmaOne CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A GSM, GPRS LTE (Planned)	86.6 (March 2009)	Verizon Communications (55%), Vodafone Group plc (45%)
2	AT&T Mobility •Currently acquiring Centennial Communications	GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA LTE (Planned)	78.2 (March 2009)	AT&T
3	Sprint Nextel •Includes Sprint Network, Nextel Network, and Boost Mobile Prepaid	Sprint Network CdmaOne CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A Nextel Network iDEN, WiDEN	49.083¹ (March 2009)	Sprint Nextel Corporation
4	T-Mobile	UMA GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA (Planned) LTE (Planned)	33.173¹ (March 2009)	Deutsche Telekom
5	TracFone Wireless •Includes NET10	CdmaOne CDMA2000 1xRTT GSM, GPRS	11.759¹ (March 2009)	América Móvil (98.2%)
6	U.S. Cellular	D-AMPS CdmaOne CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A	6.243 (March 2009)	Telephone and Data Systems (82%)
7	MetroPCS	CdmaOne CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0 LTE (Planned)	6.05 (March 2009)	MetroPCS, Inc.
8	Virgin Mobile •Includes Helio	CdmaOne CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0	5.247 (March 2009)	Virgin Group (50%), Sprint Nextel Corporation (50%)
9	Cricket •Includes Jump Mobile	CdmaOne CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A	4.337 (March 2009)	Leap Wireless
10	Qwest Wireless	CdmaOne CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A	0.747 (March 2009)	Qwest Communications
11	Cellular South	CdmaOne CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A	0.700 (December 2007)	Cellular South
12	Centennial Wireless •Currently being acquired by AT&T Mobility	GSM, GPRS, EDGE UMTS (Planned)	0.6642²(February 2009)	Centennial Communications Corp
13	Cincinnati Bell Wireless	GSM, GPRS, EDGE	0.5493 (March 2009)	Cincinnati Bell, Inc. (100%)
14	Clearwire	WiMAX	0.500¹ (March 2009)	Sprint Nextel Corporation (51%)
15	nTelos	CdmaOne CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A	0.444 (March 2009)	nTelos Holdings Corp.
16	Pocket	CdmaOne CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0	0.300 (April 2009)	Pocket Communications
17	SouthernLINC	iDEN, WiDEN	0.275 (April 2008)	Southern Company
18	Movida Wireless	CdmaOne	0.217 (March 2008)	Movida Communications, Inc.
19	Alaska Communications Systems	CdmaOne CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0	0.1436 (March 2009)	Alaska Communications Systems
20	Bluegrass Cellular	CdmaOne CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A	0.130 (May 2005)	Bluegrass Cellular, Inc,
21	GCI Wireless •Includes GCI Network, and Alaska DigiTel Network	GCI Network GSM, GPRS, EDGE Alaska DigiTel Network CdmaOne CDMA2000 1xRTT, EV-DO Rev 0, Rev A	0.105 (March 2009)	General Communication

Currently unable to determine AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Tracfone, and Clearwire subscriber numbers without Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
Centennial Wireless subscriber numbers are without Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.