Utah
Wireless Facts
| Subscribers: | 1,970,501 |
| Population: | 2,690,877 |
| Percentage of Wireless Consumers: | 73% |
| Wireless-Only Households: | 24.0% |
Industry in Utah
| Service Providers: | 11 (in urban areas) |
| Wireless Employees in the State: | 875 |
| Average Annual Wireless Payroll: | $55,949,000 |
| Average Annual Wireless Employee Wage: | $63,978 |
Wireless Subscriber Growth
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Wireless Tax Rate
- State-Local Rate
- 12.11%
- Federal Rate
- 4.79%
- Combined Monthly Tax Rate
- 16.90
- Rank Nationally
- 10th
Breakdown
- State Sales Tax (Access and Intrastate) 4.75%
- Local Sales Taxes (Average of Salt Lake City, 2.1%, and Provo, 1.75%) 1.93%
- Local Utility Wireless (Up to 3.5% maximum, reduced by the Legislature in 2007) 3.50%
- Local 9-1-1 (Max reduced from 65 cents/mo. To 61 cents/mo.) 1.22%
- State 9-1-1 (Reduced from 13 cents/month, to 8 cents/month on 7/1/07) 0.16%
- Poison Control (7 cents/month) 0.14%
- State Universal Service Fund (Intrastate revenue) 0.50%
Federal Wireless
Issues
Helpful State
Legislative Links
- State Homepage link: http://www.utah.gov
- Legislature link: le.utah.gov
- Governor’s link: http://www.utah.gov/governor
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.