Hello and thank you for your question.
Standard & Poors 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
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Source: Standard & Poors 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
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