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Producer Price Indexes
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Producer Price Index for Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)—NAICS 517312

The data for Wireless telecommunications carriers — NAICS 517312, which dates back to June 1999, is available online through the BLS website and appears in the monthly PPI Detailed Report.

Wireless telecommunications:

To calculate an establishment's unit price for wireless services, the revenue for the selected product line(s) for each firm included in the PPI survey, (e.g., post-paid wireless subscribers) is divided by the average number of connections for that service within the pricing period.

There are significant differences between the wireless telecommunications index of the PPI and the Consumer Price Index (CPI):

  • The indexes published by the CPI are inclusive of retail taxes. The PPI does not include these taxes.
  • The CPI publishes indexes using urban data only, whereas the PPI includes data from rural as well as urban areas.

Last Modified Date: January 9, 2026