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2017 Edition

national industry 517312

Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)

Overview

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating and maintaining switching and transmission facilities to provide communications via the airwaves. Establishments in this industry have spectrum licenses and provide services using that spectrum, such as cellular phone services, paging services, wireless Internet access, and wireless video services.

The immediate parent of national industry 517312 is international industry 51731: Wired and Wireless Telecommunications Carriers

Illustrative Examples

  • Cellular telephone services
  • Paging services, except satellite
  • Wireless Internet service providers, except satellite
  • Wireless telephone communications carriers, except satellite

2017 NAICS Edition Cross References

  • Operating and maintaining wired telecommunications networks--are classified in U.S. Industry 517311, Wired Telecommunications Carriers;
  • Operating and maintaining satellite networks--are classified in Industry 517410, Satellite Telecommunications;
  • Providing satellite television distribution services--are classified in U.S. Industry 517311, Wired Telecommunications Carriers; and
  • Operating as mobile virtual network operations (MVNO)--are classified in U.S. Industry 517911, Telecommunications Resellers.

Sub-Descriptions

  1. 517312 - Beeper (i.e., radio pager) communication carriers
  2. 517312 - Cellular telephone communication carriers
  3. 517312 - Cellular telephone services
  4. 517312 - Cellular telephone stores, primarily selling cellular phone service plans
  5. 517312 - Mobile phone stores, primarily selling mobile phone service plans
  6. 517312 - Mobile telephone communication carriers (except satellite)
  7. 517312 - Paging services (except satellite)
  8. 517312 - Radio paging services communications carriers
  9. 517312 - Ship-to-shore broadcasting communication carriers (except satellite)
  10. 517312 - Telecommunications carriers, cellular telephone
  11. 517312 - Telephone communications carriers, wireless (except satellite)
  12. 517312 - Two-way paging communication carriers (except satellite)
  13. 517312 - Wireless data communication carriers (except satellite)
  14. 517312 - Wireless Internet service providers (except satellite)
  15. 517312 - Wireless phone stores, primarily selling wireless phone service plans
  16. 517312 - Wireless telephone communications carriers (except satellite)
  17. 517312 - Wireless video services (except satellite)

History

The NAICS editions in which this code was present are indicated below. In the event that a code was changed from the prior edition the equivalent value in that edition is provided for reference.

Edition Existed Equivalent Value
2002 517211 517212
2007 517210
2012 517210
2017 517312
2022 517112 517122

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Mappings

  1. 4812 - Radiotelephone Communications
  2. 4813 - Telephone Communications, Except Radiotelephone

Insurance Industry Mappings

Mappings are not available for this combination of NAICS code and edition.

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