Federal obligations in wired telecommunications carriers (NAICS 517110)

Paying a carrier versus buying a radio

NAICS 517110 covers wired telecommunications carriers. On USAspending.gov the code tags contract awards classified as that carrier industry: federal circuits, dedicated lines, and related wired-telecom service. It is not a count of phone lines, and it is not a spectrum auction. Wireless equipment manufacturing is 334220. A network program can buy service under 517110 and hardware under 334220.

Computer systems design (541512) plans and integrates systems. Software publishers (511210) sell packaged software. Custom programming (541511) writes code. The $20.2 billion figure is only awards tagged 517110. Treating it as all federal communications spending will miss those neighboring lines.

Reading $20.2 billion in carrier obligations

USAspending records obligations on contract awards tagged 517110. Multi-year service vehicles, order-level circuits, and modifications all feed $20,174,178,744.68. This packet has no fiscal-year split and no outlay total. Recurring telecom service can show a large obligation while monthly invoices continue.

Outlays are the payments. Quote $20.2 billion as USAspending contract obligations coded to wired telecommunications carriers. Do not describe it as a universal-service fund, a hardware buy, or cash already spent.

7,387 awards on a carrier code

The 7,387 award records include many circuit orders as well as larger enterprise telecom vehicles. The count is not 7,387 phone numbers. Compared with fuel delivery orders, this is a thinner record set. Open the industry page for the award list.

Federal telecom buying is easy to flatten into one number. This page refuses that flattening. Wired carriers tagged 517110 produced $20,174,178,744.68 in USAspending contract obligations on 7,387 awards. Wireless radios tagged 334220 are a factory total. Systems design tagged 541512 is an integration total. Publisher licenses tagged 511210 are a software-product total. Adding those pages without a tagging rule creates a homemade communications super-total that USAspending did not publish. The 7,387 award records can include a long-lived enterprise vehicle and a small circuit order in the same list. Open the industry page before calling the market concentrated or fragmented. Quote obligations, not outlays. Quote the carrier NAICS, not a phone-line census. Assistance-funded broadband work often has no NAICS and will not appear in $20.2 billion.

What 517110 excludes

Assistance awards often lack NAICS and are outside this total. Wireless equipment manufacturing remains 334220. Navigation instruments remain 334511. IT services remain on 5415xx pages. Those neighboring tables are separate rollups.

SpendingVault aggregates USAspending.gov contract data. The $20,174,178,744.68 total and the 7,387 award count can change after corrections. The live industry page is the table of record.

Using the wired-telecom industry page

Open the WIRED TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIERS industry page for the award list under the headline. Compare 517110 with 334220 and with IT-service codes on All industries. Cite obligations, not outlays, and keep the 7,387 award count with the dollar figure.

Citing carrier service without radios or software

Cite $20,174,178,744.68 in USAspending obligations on 7,387 awards tagged NAICS 517110, wired telecommunications carriers. Say service from a carrier, not manufacturing of wireless gear, not software publishing, not systems design.

The 7,387 award count is circuit orders and vehicles, not phone numbers. Recurring telecom obligations can sit on the books while monthly invoices (outlays) continue. Those outlays are not in this packet. Assistance is generally excluded. Use the industry page for the award list under the $20.2 billion headline.

Wired carriers sell transmission, not radios. The $20,174,178,744.68 total is awards tagged 517110. The 7,387 records are circuit orders, enterprise telecom vehicles, and modifications. A dedicated line and a campus telecom contract can share the code. Phone numbers are not in the packet. Spectrum auctions are not in the packet.

Wireless equipment manufacturing (334220) is the factory next door. Systems design (541512) is the integrator next door. Software publishers (511210) are the license next door. Cite USAspending obligations on 7,387 awards coded wired telecommunications carriers. Recurring service obligations can sit while monthly invoices continue; those invoices are outlays, unpublished here.

Questions

How much is obligated on NAICS 517110 wired telecom carriers?

USAspending.gov contract awards coded NAICS 517110 show $20,174,178,744.68 in obligations across 7,387 awards. That total is obligations, not outlays, for wired telecommunications carriers. USAspending.gov records the amount as contract obligations, not outlays, on awards tagged NAICS 517110.

Is this the same as buying radios or wireless gear?

No. Radio and wireless communications equipment manufacturing is NAICS 334220. 517110 is carrier service. Hardware dollars tagged 334220 are not inside the $20,174,178,744.68 total. The packet total is $20,174,178,744.68 across 7,387 awards; assistance awards often have no NAICS and stay outside the industry rollup.

Does 517110 include software licenses?

Software publishers are NAICS 511210. This table is wired telecommunications carriers. Publisher dollars tagged 511210 are outside this total. Treat the 7,387 figure as an award-record count, including orders and modifications, not as a physical inventory of products or sites.

Do 7,387 awards mean 7,387 phone lines?

No. The 7,387 figure counts contract award records, including circuit orders and modifications. It is not a line count. This guide does not add a fiscal-year split. Quote the live industry page if you need the current award list under WIRED TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIERS.