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Mobile Network Operator

Score 19.3 / 100 27 providers 0 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (27)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 6 Solid coverage with minor gaps
SwisscomTelecommunicationsSwitzerlandBroadband13 APIs63.8KPNTelecommunicationsNetherlandsBroadband38 APIs61.9América MóvilTelecommunicationsMexicoLatin America15 APIs59.6Reliance JioTelecommunicationsIndiaNetwork APIs4 APIs58.4TELUSTelecommunicationsCanadaBroadband2 APIs55.7Telia CompanyTelecommunicationsSwedenNordicsBaltics24 APIs55.2
Developing 9 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
OptusTelecommunicationsAustraliaMessaging10 APIs54.0Bharti AirtelTelecommunicationsIndiaNetwork APIs5 APIs53.9MTN GroupTelecommunicationsSouth AfricaAfrica119 APIs53.7GSMA Open GatewayTelecommunicationsUnited KingdomNetwork APIsCAMARA22 APIs51.9TPG TelecomTelecommunicationsAustraliaBroadband2 APIs51.3Bell CanadaTelecommunicationsCanadaBroadband4 APIs48.9China MobileTelecommunicationsChinaNetwork APIs6 APIs45.1SK TelecomTelecommunicationsSouth KoreaNetwork APIs15 APIs44.5Rogers CommunicationsTelecommunicationsCanadaBroadband1 API43.9
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Liberty GlobalTelecommunicationsUnited KingdomBroadbandFixed Broadband3 APIs37.8NTT DocomoTelecommunicationsJapanNetwork APIs2 APIs28.2Deutsche TelekomTelecommunicationsTelcoCPaaS50 APIs27.6
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented
Virgin Media O2TelecommunicationsUnited KingdomBroadband1 API24.5Three UKTelecommunicationsUnited KingdomNetwork APIs20.4SingtelTelecommunicationsSingaporeNetwork APIs7 APIs19.8PrixtelCompanyConsumerTelecommunicationsMobile12.5
Minimal 5 Almost no public developer surface
AST SpaceMobileTelecommunicationsUnited StatesSatelliteDirect-to-Device8.9VodafoneTelecommunicationsTelco5G27 APIs8.7TIMTelecommunicationsTelcoNetwork APIs6 APIs8.4Rakuten MobileTelecommunicationsCarrier5G3 APIs7.9KDDITelecommunicationsCarrierJapan4.4

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Score breakdown

Frequency
40.0
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.7
spread across providers
Quality lift
45.6
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Open Gateway 19 co-occurrences CAMARA 21 co-occurrences Network APIs 21 co-occurrences SIM Swap 16 co-occurrences 5G 23 co-occurrences Broadband 18 co-occurrences BSS 7 co-occurrences Number Verification 7 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag27

Cohort brief

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The 27 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Mobile Network Operator, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
27
all scored
Mean Kin Score
37.4
+16.7 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
20.6
+10.9 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
4.4–63.8
median 44.5 · σ 19.6
How the 27 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 6Developing 9Thin 3Emerging 4Minimal 5
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 38.7 17.9 +20.8 27
Operational Transparency 27.6 11.3 +16.3 27
Contract Quality 33.3 17.5 +15.8 27
Discoverability 71 60.4 +10.6 27
Contract Governance 16.3 6.4 +9.9 27
Access Clarity 28.4 22.3 +6.1 27

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 52% 16% +36
MCP server (first-party) 7% 7% 0
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 37% 9% +28
Security 100% 88% +12
Arazzo workflows 4% 2% +2
Governance rules 0% 13% -13

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Swisscom 63.8
  2. 2 KPN 61.9
  3. 3 América Móvil 59.6
  4. 4 Reliance Jio 58.4
  5. 5 TELUS 55.7
  6. 6 Telia Company 55.2
  7. 7 Optus 54
  8. 8 Bharti Airtel 53.9
  9. 9 MTN Group 53.7
  10. 10 GSMA Open Gateway 51.9
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Telia Company 48.1
  2. 2 Swisscom 48
  3. 3 SK Telecom 43.7
  4. 4 KPN 40.8
  5. 5 GSMA Open Gateway 39.5
  6. 6 MTN Group 35.7
  7. 7 América Móvil 32.6
  8. 8 China Mobile 30.4
  9. 9 Reliance Jio 30
  10. 10 TPG Telecom 28.2
All 27 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 25 August 2026, across 26891 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

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