Growing Wireless Minutes of Use (1991 – 2008)    
The following chart illustrates the growth in average minutes of wireless use from 1991 to June 30, 2008.

Not Enough Minutes in a Day

• Consumers used more than 2.2 trillion minutes of use (MOUs) in the last 12 months (July 2007 – June 2008), marking a staggering 9,958% increase during 1991.
• In the first half of 2008, consumers talked on average a total of 187 billion minutes each month. That is more than 6 billion minutes each day, and amounts to about 766 minutes per customer each month.
• In the first six months of 2008 (Jan.  1 - June 30), consumers used more than 1.1 trillion MOUs, an increase of more than 10%compared to the same time period in 2007.
• The largest spike in MOUs took place between June 2005 and June 2006. During this 12-month period, MOUs increased by almost 418 billion, from approximately 1.26 trillion to 1.68 trillion.
  
  
  
  

* 2008 data reflects six-month data for
   Jan. 1 – June 30, 2008, industry-wide.