Wireless Quick Facts
Mid-Year Figures

Topic	Jun-08	Jun-05	Jun-00	Jun-95
Wireless Subscribers	262.7M	194.4M	97M	28.1M
Wireless Penetration % of total U.S. population	84%	66%	34%	11%
Wireless-Only Households1 % of U.S. Households	15.8%	7.7%	N/A	N/A
Direct Carrier Jobs	268,000	225,000	159,000	61,000
Wireless Carrier Payroll2 Direct Carrier Wages	$13B	$12.2B	$1.8B	$1.7B
Annualized Total Wireless Revenues	$143.7B	$110.3B	$46.9B	$18.6B
Annualized Wireless Data Revenues	$27.5B	$8.5B	$139.4M	N/A
Annualized Incremental Capital Investment	$21.0B	$19.8B	$9.9B	$5.6B
Annualized Minutes of Use	2.23T	1.26T	194.95B	31.5B
Monthly SMS Messages	75B	7.2B	12.2M	N/A
Annualized Yearly SMS Messages	600.5B	57.2B	N/A	N/A
Cell Sites	220,472	178,025	95,733	19,844
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, July-December 2007, National Center for Health 
  Statistics, May 14, 2008, YE 2007 Data.

2BLS Series data, YE 2007 Data.

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

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