Revenues from cellular and other wireless telecommunications firms reached approximately $126 billion in 2004, up 14 percent, from 2003, according to a report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. Cable and other program distribution revenues increased 13 percent, to $73 billion.

     Basic cable programming, which accounts for more than half of cable distribution revenues, increased by 14 percent, to $44 billion. Up 28 percent, cable Internet access services posted the largest year-to-year percentage increase of cable distribution revenues, increasing to $9 billion.

     Revenues for wired telecommunications carriers were down 5 percent to $211 billion, with fixed long-distance revenues falling 17 percent, to $37 billion.

     The report, 2004 Service Annual Survey: Information Sector Services, shows a 5 percent increase in revenues for the nation's information firms from $908 billion in 2003 to $955 billion in 2004. The report also highlights revenues from the publishing, motion picture and sound-recording industries, and information services and data-processing services.

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Estimates in this report are based on data for employer firms only from the 2004 Service Annual Survey. They contain sampling and nonsampling errors. To keep the identity of an individual firm confidential, some estimates may be suppressed. Users making their own estimates, based on the survey estimates, should cite the U.S. Census Bureau as the source of the original estimates only. See <http://www.census.gov/econ/www/servmenu.html> for measures of sampling variability and other survey information.