ANNUAL REPORT ON STATE OF COMPETITION IN THE WIRELESS INDUSTRY

FCC Releases Annual Report On State Of Competition In The Wireless Industry
From the report:

· Approximately 280 million people, or 99.8 percent of the U.S. population, have one or more different operators offering mobile telephone service in the census blocks in which they live.

· More than 95 percent of the U.S. population lives in areas with at least three mobile telephone operators competing to offer service.

· More than half of the U.S. population lives in areas with at least five competing mobile telephone operators.

· Approximately 99.3 percent of the U.S. population living in rural counties, or 60.6 million people, have one or more different operators offering mobile telephone service in the census blocks within the rural counties in which they live.

Also:
the volume of text messaging traffic rose from 9.8 billion messages sent during December 2005 to 18.7 billon messages sent during December 2006.