50 FACTS ABOUT THE U.S. WIRELESS INDUSTRY
Advocacy and research provided by CTIA, the wireless association

Since CTIA started tracking in 1985, the cumulative industry investment has totaled more than $322 billion, not including more than $40 billion in payments to the U.S. Treasury for spectrum. The wireless association calculates that in just the first half of 2011, U.S. wireless consumers used an average of 6 billion minutes per day! During that same period, almost 1.14 trillion text messages were sent and received.

The wireless industry directly/indirectly employs >2.4 million Americans.