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Subject: cell phones in the usa
Category: Business and Money > Advertising and Marketing
Asked by: jim1946-ga
List Price: $5.00
Posted: 21 Nov 2002 10:45 PST
Expires: 21 Dec 2002 10:45 PST
Question ID: 112049
How many cell phones are there in the usa? Specifcally I owuld like to
know how many phones are activated with a services e.g Verizon
Wireless, AT&T Wireless etc.
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Subject: Re: cell phones in the usa
Answered By: bobbie7-ga on 21 Nov 2002 11:34 PST
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Hello and thank you for your question.

Standard & Poor’s Telecommunications: Wireless Industry Survey
provides a 50 page detailed report which I made use of in answering
your question.
 
Based on estimates from the Cellular Telecommunications &
Internet Association (CTIA), total U.S. wireless penetration reached
39% of the U.S. population (based on 109.5 million estimated total
customers).

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Carrier          Subscribers 2nd Q 2001
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Verizon          7,900,000
Cingular        21,218,000 
AT&T            16,416,000 
Sprint PCS      11,198,000 
Nextel           7,680,000 
Alltel           6,463,649
VoiceStream      5,953,000 
US Cellular      3,294,000 
Total          100,122,649 
---------------------------------------

Source: Standard & Poor’s Telecommunications: Wireless Industry Survey
November 2001 (page6)
http://instruction.bus.wisc.edu/rstevenson/pubic%20utilities/sp%20telco%20wireless.pdf

Additional information that may interest you:

Percent of Cellular Phone Owners by Market Penetration
Source: Scarborough Research Release 2001
http://www.scarborough.com/scarb2002/press/pr_cellphone_data.htm

A national study predicts by 2005, there will be a stockpile of about
500-million cell phones in the U.S.
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:0UnPL9YxEu0C:www.wtsp.com/extra/recycling_electronics.htm+%22+*+cell+phones+in+the+U.S.%22&hl=es&ie=UTF-8

Search Criteria:

" * cell phones in the U.S."
cell phones statistics users who subscribed with Verizon Wireless,
AT&T Wireless


I hope you find this helpful and if there is anything that I've
written that needs clarification, please ask before you rate this
answer.

Best Regards,
Bobbie7-ga
jim1946-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars

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