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20. Wireless companies take out $1 for every $5 they’ve contributed to the
Universal Service Fund, while ILECs have taken out $3 for every $1
contributed.
21. According to Dr. Jerry Hausman, the MacDonald professor of Economics
at MIT, “The ETF reduces carriers’ cost of serving all customers by
reducing transaction costs and the wireless industry is intensely
competitive. Thus, prohibiting carriers from charging ETF’s will cause
prices for wireless services and/or equipment to be higher than they
otherwise would have been.”
22. Since a national regulatory framework was introduced for wireless,
subscribership has grown by more than 679%.
23. Market research has attributed 52% of mobile content consumption in the
U.S. to Hispanic wireless users.
24. The effective rate of taxation on wireless service increased nine times
faster than the rate on other taxable goods and services between January
2003 and July 2005.
25. Since a national regulatory framework was introduced, wireless
subscribers have used almost 5,000% more minutes per six month period.
26. Indiana, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South
Dakota, and Texas all impose a sales tax on wireless communications,
but also impose an additional gross receipts or excise tax on wireless
communications.
27. In 2005, the average pay of a wireless employee in New York was
$69,277. This is more than double both the statewide ($28,158) and
national ($25,035) per capita incomes, and is substantially more than
both the statewide ($59,686) and national ($55,832) median family
incomes.
28. According to Guerilla Economics, the elimination of Texas’s 6.25% sales
tax on capitol investments will encourage an estimated $146.85 million in
additional invested capital in the state.
29. From 2001 to 2005 wireless companies received a little more than $1
billion of USF monies while ILECS received more than $20 billion over the
same period.
Global Mobile Spectrum
Allocations Map
This interactive map will help you learn about spectrum allocation, country-by-country, collected per continent.
In addition, the map offers data as granular as the available technologies (Frequency – MHz), as well as the region designation per the ITU, on a per country basis.
Click here to learn more.