CTIA filed a paper at the FCC arguing...
CTIA filed a paper at the FCC arguing that the U.S. wireless industry leads the world in “Investment, Value, Innovation, and Competition.” The paper was timed to the arrival of new Chairman Ton Wheeler, who formerly headed the group, and…
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Commissioner Michael O'Rielly. “Last year, U.S. wireless carriers invested more than $30 billion in their networks, accounting for a quarter of the world’s wireless capital investment,” CTIA said (http://bit.ly/1ds0UuA). “And the U.S. invested six times more per subscriber than its global counterparts: $94 per subscriber versus $16 per subscriber.” While only 5 percent of the world’s wireless connections are in the U.S, the U.S. has half world’s LTE connections, CTIA said. Wireless service is also cheap here, the group said. “U.S. consumers pay less per unit of usage -- and use mobile far more extensively -- than their foreign counterparts: The average voice revenue per minute in the U.S. is three cents, while the European average is ten cents."