Comments on: What is the total deployment cost of US wireless telephone infrastructure?

Question: What is the total deployment cost of US wireless telephone infrastructure?

yesno — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:02:23 -0800

What is the total deployment cost of US wireless telephone infrastructure?

I am trying to figure out the total costs of US cell phone infrastructure over time. How much has the industry spent in siting and building towers, maintenance, wireless-specific backhaul, etc? I just need a rough estimate somewhere that I can cite, but am coming up dry.

Thanks!

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:53:16 -0800

Check the annual reports / 10K records for publicly-traded cellular carriers. Their capital expenditures will be almost completely cell phone infrastructure. They'll certainly go into some detail on what they're spending.

By: gjc

gjc — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:39:42 -0800

Are you going to count infrastructure that they put up 10 years ago that they are now paying to decommission? (Like analog.)

By: yesno

yesno — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:00:52 -0800

Yeah, I was just looking to find out the number that they have spent on infrastructure overall, including costs deploying now-obsolete technology and the costs associated with decommissioning that equipment.