Revenues of cellular and other
wireless telecommunications firms, both employers and nonemployers, increased
17 percent in 2002 — from $78 billion in 2001 to $91 billion, the
U.S. Census Bureau reported today.
The increase occurred despite an overall dip in revenues for the telecommunications
industry of 4 percent, from $367 billion in 2001 to $353 billion in 2002.
Within this industry group, revenues of wired telecommunications carriers
were down 9 percent in 2002 to $240 billion, from $263 billion in 2001.
The report, 2002
Service Annual Survey: Information Sector Services, showed revenues
for the nation’s information firms totaled $885 billion in 2002.
Highlights for employer firms:
Publishing Industries
- Revenues of book publishers increased 4
percent to $27 billion.
- Newspaper publishers’ revenues remained stable at $48 billion
in 2002.
- Software publishing revenues dropped 2 percent to $89 billion.
Motion Picture and Sound Recording
- The majority of revenue in this
industry came in motion picture and video production and distribution,
up 11 percent, from $40 billion to $44 billion.
- Motion picture and video exhibition
revenues were up 7 percent to $11 billion.
Broadcasting and Telecommunications
- Television broadcasting revenues were up 9 percent to $37 billion.
- Radio broadcasting revenues increased 8 percent to $15 billion.
- Revenues of cable and other program
distribution firms increased 8 percent to $56 billion. Revenue sources
contributing to this increase were cable Internet services, up 60 percent
to $3 billion, and basic, fixed local telephone services, up 8 percent
to $1 billion.
- Cable networks and program distribution
revenues were up 8 percent to $81 billion.
Information Services and Data
Processing
- Data processing services had an increase in revenues of 12 percent
to $53 billion.
- News syndicates’ revenues decreased 2 percent to $2 billion.
- Revenues of online information
services dropped 3 percent to $28 billion, but revenues from Internet
access, a separate item, increased 3 percent to $15 billion.
Estimates in this report are based on
data from the 2002 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.
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