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60. The FCC has reported that “mobile calls continue to be significantly less expensive on a per minute basis
in the United States than in Western Europe and Japan.”
61. As per the NPD Group, by mid-2006, 42% of all wireless subscribers used their wireless phone as their
primary phone.
62. According to Telephia, more than 2,000 video titles are now available to wireless subscribers over their
mobile devices.
63. By the middle of 2006, almost half of wireless customers in the U.S. were using some form of wireless
data – surfing the wireless web, sending text and photo-messages, or downloading and playing games,
ringtones, or music files.
64. Globally, more than 200 mobile broadband devices have been introduced.
65. As stated by M:Metrics, almost 75 million U.S. wireless customers sent text messages in October 2006.
66. Since a national framework was introduced, the average local monthly wireless bill has fallen
approximately 30% in inflation adjusted dollars.
67. According to the NPD Group, 12% of U.S. wireless customers sent picture messages in September 2006
– up from 4% in January 2006.
68. As per Telephia, in the third quarter 2006, about 23.5 million U.S. wireless subscribers had music players
on their handsets, and more than 2 million downloaded full music tracks.
69. There are hundreds of thousands of wireless 911 calls made per day.
