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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.

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