Telecommunication Services in the United States

Introduction

Telecommunication Services in the United States industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value 2007-11, and forecast to 2016). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the United States telecommunication services market. Includes market size data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

Highlights

• The telecommunication services market consists of the fixed line telecoms market and the wireless telecommunication services market. The fixed-line telecommunications market is valued as the revenues obtained by operators for voice telephony and other non-voice information transmission using fixed lines (wirelines), rather than wireless systems. The wireless telecommunications services market is defined here as including cellular (mobile) phones, pagers and any other wireless or cellular telecommunication service. The market value is composed of revenues from end-users for subscription and usage, with revenues from other operators, as in wholesale transactions, excluded. Revenues from wired internet services and value-added services are included. Market volumes are for the total number of fixed-line telephones and mobile subscribers. All currency conversions were carried out at constant 2011 average annual exchange rates.
• The US telecommunication services market had total revenues of $287.2 billion in 2011, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1% between 2007 and 2011.
• Market consumption volumes increased with a CAGR of 3.7% between 2007 and 2011, to reach a total of 474.2 million subscribers in 2011.
• The performance of the market is forecast to decline, with an anticipated CARC of -1.7% for the five-year period 2011 - 2016, which is expected to drive the market to a value of $264 billion by the end of 2016.

Features

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Macroeconomic indicators provide insight into general trends within the United States economy

Key Questions Answered

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