Federal obligations in wired telecommunications carriers (NAICS 517111)

Wired carriers: $989.7 million in tagged contracts

Federal agencies buy local and long-haul wired voice and data services from carriers classified in 517111. The tagged obligation total is $989,673,220.73. That is not a subscriber count, not fiber-miles, and not the universal service fund. Those concepts live in other datasets. This page’s number is contract obligations tagged to wired carriers.

Service contracts in telecom often obligate a period of performance or a ceiling and invoice monthly. The $989,673,220.73 is committed value on tagged actions, which can include those vehicles and their modifications. Outlays follow invoices and can differ after credits or disconnects.

4,182 awards versus the four-award residual

Four thousand one hundred eighty-two awards against $989,673,220.73 averages about $237,000 per action. That is a many-site services pattern: circuits, campus connectivity, and related wired services bought in numerous instruments. Contrast that with NAICS 517910 in this slice, which holds four awards and a larger dollar total. Those are different industries. Do not merge them into one “telecom” cell without labeling the mix.

This guide does not rank carriers. Packet facts for 517111 are $989,673,220.73 and 4,182. The industry hub lists the rows.

Wired versus wireless versus “other”

517111 is wired telecommunications carriers. Wireless, satellite, and the 517910 residual are other codes. A bundled contract that includes wireless lines may still be tagged to the vendor’s primary industry. The $989,673,220.73 follows the 517111 tag on 4,182 actions as recorded, not a forensic unbundling of every circuit type.

Assistance awards may not carry NAICS. BEAD-style or other broadband assistance will usually miss this contract rollup. Program pages are the grant view; this industry page is the tagged carrier-contract view.

A complete citation of this industry is $989,673,220.73 in USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 517111, wired telecommunications carriers, on 4,182 awards. Anything less—dropping the NAICS, dropping the word obligations, or dropping the contract-only universe—overstates what the extract contains. The packet facts do not include a fiscal year, so this guide does not invent one. Live tables on the industry hub can move when USAspending posts modifications; the harvested pair remains $989,673,220.73 and 4,182.

How to read the 517111 tables

Keep obligations and outlays apart. Keep 517111 and 517910 apart. Then open the wired telecommunications carriers industry page for the 4,182 actions behind $989,673,220.73. The all-industries directory is the hop to neighboring 517 codes. Source: USAspending.gov contract awards.

Classification errors are expected at the margin. Vendors that straddle the four-award other-telecommunications residual, wireless carriers, and answering bureaus may land in 517111 on some actions and in a neighbor on others. Other telecommunications (517910) holds four awards; 517111 holds 4,182. The public-record stance is to keep $989,673,220.73 attached to 517111 as tagged, then keep 517111 and 517910 in separate spreadsheet columns even if both say telecom. Re-tagging the extract by hand is out of scope for this overlay.

What this overlay will not claim

No fiscal year, because none is in the packet. No statement that wired is “legacy” or wireless is “modern.” No invented coverage-map statistic. The public record here is $989,673,220.73 obligated on 4,182 tagged awards.

Wired-carrier volume is not the residual telecom code

Award count interprets the buying pattern. 4,182 actions producing $989,673,220.73 is thousands of circuit and campus-connectivity service actions, with about $237,000 per action as the simple average. That average hides mix: modifications, options, and delivery orders all increment count. 4,182 is not a count of unique companies and not a count of physical units. Use the hub amount sort to see whether a few large rows plus a long tail make up most of the tagged total.

Outlays remain a separate USAspending concept. An agency can obligate $989,673,220.73 across 4,182 tagged wired telecommunications carriers actions and pay on a different calendar. De-obligations after cancellations reduce the obligation ledger; they do not rewrite the fact that this NAICS has been a large tagged category in the harvest. Assistance without NAICS still sits outside even when the real-world activity looks similar. Program pages answer the grant question; this page answers the tagged-contract question.

Internal links on this file point only to the wired telecommunications carriers industry page and the all-industries directory. Those are the packet hrefs. Neighboring industry codes mentioned in prose are classification context only. Source note, copied from the packet: NAICS from USAspending contract awards. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS. The overlay’s job is to state $989,673,220.73, 4,182, the obligation unit, and the boundary around the four-award other-telecommunications residual, wireless carriers, and answering bureaus.

Questions

How much federal contract spending is coded to wired telecom carriers?

NAICS 517111 shows $989,673,220.73 in obligations on 4,182 USAspending contract awards. That is wired telecommunications carriers as tagged, not wireless and not the other-telecommunications residual. The unit is obligations, not outlays. Quote it as USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 517111, not as cash outlays. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so grants remain outside the 4,182-award extract behind $989,673,220.73.

Is this the same as NAICS 517910 other telecommunications?

No. 517910 in this slice has 4 awards and a different dollar total. 517111 has 4,182 awards and $989,673,220.73. They are separate NAICS rollups. Do not combine them without labeling each code. Other telecommunications (517910) holds four awards; 517111 holds 4,182. Keep $989,673,220.73 attached to 517111 as tagged on 4,182 actions; do not merge neighbor codes into the same unlabeled cell.

Does $989.7 million include broadband grants?

Usually not. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so they fall outside this contract extract. Use program pages for grants and the industry page for tagged carrier contracts. That pattern is thousands of circuit and campus-connectivity service actions, with about $237,000 per action as the simple average of $989,673,220.73 over 4,182 awards. Keep 517111 and 517910 in separate spreadsheet columns even if both say telecom.

Where can I see the 4,182 wired-carrier awards?

On the WIRED TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIERS industry page. This guide restates the two packet facts and the NAICS boundary. It does not invent a carrier ranking. This industry guide covers tagged contracts only: $989,673,220.73 obligated on 4,182 wired telecommunications carriers awards in USAspending. Outlays are a different field; assistance without NAICS is a different award type.