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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.