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Tom Martin
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Wireless Quick Facts
Mid-Year Figures
| Topic | Jun-11 | June-06 | June-01 | June-96 |
| Wireless Subscriber Connections | 322.8M | 219.6M | 118.4M | 38.2M |
| Wireless Penetration equals # of active units divided by the total U.S. and territorial population (Puerto Rico, Guam and the USVI) |
102.4% | 72.5% | 40.9% | 14% |
| Wireless-Only Households1 % of U.S. Households |
31.6% | 10.5% | N/A | N/A |
| Direct Carrier Jobs | 243,239 | 238,236 | 196,317 | 73,365 |
| Wireless Carrier Payroll2 Direct Carrier Wages |
$10.9B | $13.1B | $11.3B | N/A |
| Annualized Total Wireless Revenues | $164.6B | $118.3B | $58.7B | $21.5B |
| Annualized Wireless Data Revenues | $55.4B | $11.3B | $280.8M | N/A |
| Annualized Incremental Capital Investment | $27.5B | $22.7B | $23.1B | $5B |
| Annualized Minutes of Use | 2.25T | 1.68T | 344.9B | 44.4B |
| Monthly Text Messages | 196.9B | 12.5B | 33.5M | N/A |
| Annualized Yearly Text Messages | 2.12T | 113.5B | N/A | N/A |
| Cell Sites | 256,920 | 197,576 | 114,059 | 24,802 |
| E-911 Calls3 Per Day |
>396K | 260K | 139K | 55K |
K=Thousand M=Million B=Billion T=Trillion
1Midyear 2006 wireless-only data from Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, July-December 2009. National Center for Health Statistics, May 2010. Figure for June 2011 is from Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, January – June 2011. National Center for Health Statistics, December 2011.
2BLS Series data, Year-end 2010.
3CTIA Wireless 9-1-1 and Distress Calls.
