Texas
Wireless Facts
| Subscribers: | 19,646,758 |
| Population: | 24,115,677 |
| Percentage of Wireless Consumers: | 81% |
| Wireless-Only Households: | 20.6% |
Industry in Texas
| Service Providers: | 27 (in urban areas) |
| Wireless Employees in the State: | 26,194 |
| Average Annual Wireless Payroll: | $1,547,616,000 |
| Average Annual Wireless Employee Wage: | $59,082 |
Wireless Subscriber Growth
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Wireless Tax Rate
- State-Local Rate
- 12.39%
- Federal Rate
- 4.79%
- Combined Monthly Tax Rate
- 17.18%
- Rank Nationally
- 9th
Breakdown
- State Sales Tax (Access, Interstate and Intrastate) 6.25%
- Local Sales Tax (Austin, 2%, and Houston, 2%) 2.00%
- Telecom Infrastructure Fund (Repealed effective 10/1/2008) 1.25%
- Wireless 9-1-1 Tax (50 cents per month) 1.00%
- Texas Universal Service Fund (4.4% times FCC intrastate safe harbor, 62.9%) 2.77%
- 9-1-1 Equalization Surcharge (Intrastate long distance) 1.00%
Federal Wireless
Issues
Helpful State
Legislative Links
- State Homepage link: www.texasonline.com
- Legislature link: www.legis.state.tx.us
- Governor’s link: governor.state.tx.us
All Information Compiled from the Following Sources:
- Dr. Robert Roche, CTIA-The Wireless Association’s Vice President for Research, Washington, D.C., http://www.ctia.org.
- Scott Mackey, Partner and Economist, Kimbell Sherman Ellis, LLP, Montpelier, VT, http://www.ksefocus.com/why-kse/people/scott-mackey, from Tax Analysts, Special Report, State Tax Notes, February, 2008, “Excessive Taxes and Fees on Wireless Service: Recent Trends,” by Scott Mackey.
- Federal Communications Commission, FCC’s Industry Analysis and Technology Division, Wireline Competition Bureau, July 2009, “Local Telephone Competition: Status as of June 30, 2008,” http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-292193A1.pdf.
- Data on employment and wages by state are available from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Census of Employment and Wages (CEW) at http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/outside.jsp?survey=en. The wireless industry data is retrievable through NAICS 5172 - Wireless Telecommunications Carriers.
- The data on state population and household income is available via drop down menu from the Fact Sheets available from the U.S. Census Fact Finder page, at http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en.