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10. 94% of Americans are now living in counties with four or more wireless service providers.
11. Since a national regulatory framework for wireless was introduced, wireless minutes of use have
increased almost 5000% from 17 billion in the first six months of 1995, to more than 857 billion in the first
half of 2006.
12. As of 3Q06, the FCC reported a complaint rate of 0.00185% (19 per million subscribers).
13. In 2005, the average compensation of a wireless employee in Pennsylvania was $55,085. This is more
than double both the statewide ($24,591) and national ($25,035) per capita incomes, and more than both
the statewide ($44,537) and national ($46,242) median household incomes.
14. As of mid-year 2006, the average wireless bill in the US was less than $50.00.
15. The FCC has reported that “the United States continues to lead the world in average minutes of use per
subscriber” – individual customers in the U.S. use five times the number of minutes as the average
European subscriber.
16. The wireless industry contributed $92 billion the United States GDP in 2004.
17. In the first 6 months of 2006, the wireless industry added approximately 63,000 new subscribers per day.
18. The wireless industry has been repeatedly judged to be effectively competitive by the FCC.
19. Nebraska has the highest effective wireless tax rate at more than 21%, including fees and surcharges.
