CTIA: “Wireless Quick Facts” For 2010

Stats that stand out:

• “Wireless-Only Households” (% of U.S. Households) is 26.6%, which means nearly 75% of all US homes continue to have a landline.
• Look at the MAMMOTH increase in “Annualized Wireless Data Revenues” from 2005 to 2010!
• And then compare that to the unbelievable increase in “Monthly Text Messages.”

http://www.ctia.org/media/industry_info/index.cfm/AID/10323

Wireless Quick Facts
Year End Figures

Topic	Dec-10	Dec-05	Dec-00	Dec-95
Wireless Subscriber Connections	302.9M	207.9M	109.5M	33.8M
Wireless Penetration equals % of total U.S. population	96%	69%	38%	13%
Wireless-Only Households1 % of U.S. Households	26.6%	8.4%	N/A	N/A
Direct Carrier Jobs	250,393	233,000	184,000	68,000
Wireless Carrier Payroll2 Direct Carrier Wages	$13.2B	$12.2B	$1.8B	$1.7B
Annualized Total Wireless Revenues	$159.9B	$113.5B	$45.3B	$19B
Annualized Wireless Data Revenues	$50.1B	$8.5B	$211.2M	N/A
Annualized Incremental Capital Investment	$24.9B	$25.2B	$18.4B	$5.1B
Minutes of Use	2.2T	1.5T	258.8B	37.8B
Monthly Text Messages	187.7B	9.8B	14.4M	N/A
Annualized Yearly Text Messages	2.1T	81B	N/A	N/A
Cell Sites	253,086	183,689	104,288	22,663
E-911 Calls3 Per Day	>296K	260K	139K	55K

K=Thousand             M=Million                B=Billion                 T=Trillion
1Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, January - June 2010, National Center for Health Statistics, December 2010.

2BLS Series data, 2009.

3CTIA Wireless 9-1-1 and Distress Calls.

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