Report to Congress

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Report to Congress Sixth Annual CMRS Competition
Report June 20, 2001
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Digital Coverage in the U.S.
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Digital Coverage in the U.S.
Source FCC estimate based on publicly-available
sources
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Wireless vs. Wireline

• Cord-Cutting
• 3 Percent of mobile telephony subscribers rely on
  their wireless phones as their only phone
• 12 percent of those surveyed purchased a wireless
  phone instead of installing an additional
  wireline phone
• Technology Substitution
• BellSouth exiting the payphone business in part
  due to business lost to wireless phones
• 20 million mobile phone subscribers have free
  long distance

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Mobile Data Devices

• Paging/Messaging 45.3 million subscribers
• Arch, Metrocall, SkyTel, Weblink Wireless,
  Verizon
• Dedicated Data Networks 650,000 subscribers
• Motient, Cingular Interactive, Metricom
• Handhelds Devices or Personal Digital Assistants
  (PDAs)
• PalmOS, RIM, Microsoft Pocket PCs

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Wireless Web Services Offered by Mobile
Telephone Carriers

• Subscribers
• From 0 in 1999 to 2.5 million in 2000
• Offerings from seven carriers
• ALLTEL
• ATT Wireless
• Cingular
• Nextel
• Sprint PCS
• Verizon Wireless
• VoiceStream

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Wireless Web

• Connect to the wireless data network
• Access websites for
• Movie listings
• News
• Shopping
• Stock quotes
• Traffic reports
• Weather forecasts

1 Find It 24Shopping 3 Finance 4
NewsStand more...
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3rd Generation (3G)

• ITU standards specified
• Additional spectrum allocated and assigned in
  most major European and Asian countries
• Proceeding underway in the U.S.
• U.S. carriers may use existing licenses to deploy
  2.5G and 3G networks
• 2.5G and 3G rollout delayed but underway