NAICS 517311 wired telecommunications carriers obligations

Wired carriers, not a spectrum auction

NAICS 517311 is wired telecommunications carriers. Contracting officers assign it when the principal service is wired-network carriage — dedicated circuits, last-mile fiber, and related carrier services as the Census class groups them. This $1,574,512,903.78 is that carrier tag. It is not FCC auction proceeds, not a cell-tower count, and not NAICS 517312 wireless telecommunications carriers except satellite.

Nine thousand eighty-one awards produced a mean of about $173,000. Federal wired-service buys often mix circuit orders, building laterals, and multi-year carrier vehicles, which sits between a single drop and a national backbone program. The packet does not count strand-miles, central offices, or subscribers.

Wireless except satellite (517312) and satellite telecommunications are neighboring 517 classes. A cellular or satellite vehicle tagged to those codes does not sit in $1.6 billion under 517311.

Circuits, options, and payment timing

Carrier contracts often obligate estimated monthly service and construction and pay as invoices post. Unused option years leave obligated balances unpaid. Treating $1.6 billion as circuits already in service would overstate cash on open vehicles.

The 9,081-award count is not a circuit count. USAspending may still group multiple task orders into awards. Dividing $1,574,512,903.78 by 9,081 awards is a mean obligation per award identifier, not a price per megabit.

What this total excludes

Assistance that funds rural broadband grants often lacks NAICS or uses a different class and does not automatically enter $1,574,512,903.78. In-house federal networks operated by agency staff are not 517311 contracts. Telecommunications resellers and other 517 residual classes are separate hubs.

Equipment manufacturing tagged to a 334 communications-equipment code is a product class, not this carrier class. Mixed build-and-operate vehicles follow the principal NAICS the officer selected. Dedicated circuits, last-mile fiber, and multi-year carrier vehicles can share 517311 when that is the principal class. The $1,574,512,903.78 total does not split those services across the 9,081 awards.

How to use the 517311 hub

Read $1.6 billion and 9,081 awards as the wired-carrier tag, then open the wired telecommunications carriers industry page for award-level fields. Rank 517 telecommunications codes on the all-industries index without converting this wired class into a wireless or satellite total.

This guide does not add strand-mile inventories because they are not in the facts object. A reseller tagged to a telecommunications-reseller NAICS is not this carrier book. Quote obligations, not strand-miles, and keep subscriber counts out because they are not in the facts object.

Classification limits

Wired carriers are not wireless except satellite and not satellite operators. SpendingVault reports the tagged 517311 sum.

Extract updates will move $1,574,512,903.78 and 9,081 with USAspending.

Circuits on the books versus circuits in service

Nine thousand eighty-one wired-carrier awards at $1,574,512,903.78 produce a mean of about $173,000. That mix can include a building lateral, a dedicated circuit, and a multi-year carrier vehicle on the same NAICS tag. The packet does not split those shapes. Monthly service that is obligated and not yet invoiced still sits in obligations. Broadband assistance that omits NAICS never joins $1,574,512,903.78 even if it funds fiber in the field.

Wireless except satellite (517312) and satellite telecommunications answer different carrier questions. Rank those hubs separately on the all-industries index. Equipment manufacturing tagged to a 334 communications-equipment code is a product class, not this 517311 carrier class. Open the wired telecommunications carriers industry page for award-level fields behind the $1.6 billion. Cite USAspending.gov. Extract updates will move both the dollars and the 9,081-award count. In-house federal networks run by agency staff are not wired-carrier contracts. A searcher asking how much the federal government spent on telecom should still separate wired carriers from wireless except satellite and from satellite. The $1,574,512,903.78 figure answers the NAICS 517311 question only. The 9,081-award count answers how many award identifiers carried that tag, not how many circuits were live. Open the wired telecommunications carriers industry page, then compare other 517 codes on the all-industries index. Keep the language to obligations recorded in USAspending.gov, and do not convert the mean of about $173,000 into a price per megabit.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 517311?

Wired telecommunications carriers contracts in USAspending show $1,574,512,903.78 in obligations across 9,081 awards. That is a wired-carrier tag, not wireless except satellite and not satellite telecommunications. The figure is obligations, not outlays. Assistance without a NAICS code is excluded from this industry extract.

What is the average wired-carrier award?

Dividing $1,574,512,903.78 by 9,081 awards yields about $173,000. That mean mixes circuit orders and multi-year carrier vehicles in this extract. It is not a price per megabit or per strand-mile. The packet does not publish a median, a circuit count, or a subscriber total.

Does this include wireless or satellite service?

Only contract actions tagged 517311. Wireless except satellite and satellite telecommunications are separate 517 classes. Mixed networks follow the principal NAICS the officer selected. This $1.6 billion is the wired-carrier tag. Use each industry hub for its own Census class on SpendingVault.

Are these dollars already paid to carriers?

No. USAspending reports obligations on this hub, not outlays. Open service months and unused options can leave balances unliquidated after the award posts. The 9,081-award count is not a proof of circuits in service. Cite USAspending.gov for the tagged extract on SpendingVault.