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Telecommunications: Wireless. Industry Profile. Industry Focus. Providing wireless telecommunications Acquiring new customers Developing new products. Composition. 2.5% of American jobs are in wireless industry $92 billion of US GDP $118 billion in revenues in Fall 2006
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Telecommunications: Wireless Industry Profile
Industry Focus • Providing wireless telecommunications • Acquiring new customers • Developing new products
Composition • 2.5% of American jobs are in wireless industry • $92 billion of US GDP • $118 billion in revenues in Fall 2006 • “US wireless industry is so huge that if everybody who was employed in the industry were sent off to form our own country, it would be the 46th largest country in the world” --RCR Magazine
Industry Leaders • 8 Major US companies in 2002 • 5 in 2007 • Verizon Wireless, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Alltel
Current State • Growing Industry • Continuous capital investments • Nearly total market saturation • New technologies development
IS Advancements • Cellular and wi-fi phone calls • Leasing cell-towers • Internet over bandwidth