NAICS 517312 wireless telecommunications carriers except satellite obligations

Terrestrial wireless, not satellite

NAICS 517312 is wireless telecommunications carriers except satellite. Contracting officers assign it when the principal service is terrestrial wireless carriage — cellular, PCS, and related non-satellite wireless — as the Census class groups them. This $1,410,126,949.80 is that carrier tag. It is not a spectrum-auction receipt, not a satellite-constellation buy, and not NAICS 517311 wired telecommunications carriers.

Nine thousand three hundred twenty-two awards produced a mean of about $151,000. Federal wireless-service buys often mix device-and-plan vehicles, facility cellular, and multi-year carrier contracts, which sits between a small line order and a nationwide mobility program. The packet does not count subscribers, towers, or megahertz.

Wired carriers (517311) and satellite telecommunications are neighboring 517 classes. A fiber circuit or satellite link tagged to those codes does not sit in $1.4 billion under 517312. Those 9,322 awards are the wireless-except-satellite book as tagged, not a count of federal mobile lines.

Service months versus award identifiers

The 9,322-award count is not a line count. USAspending may still group multiple task orders into awards. Dividing $1,410,126,949.80 by 9,322 awards is a mean obligation per award identifier, not a price per handset or per gigabyte.

Carrier contracts often obligate estimated monthly service and pay as invoices post. Unused option years leave obligated balances unpaid. Treating $1.4 billion as minutes already used would overstate cash. SpendingVault reports the tagged wireless-carrier sum, not a spectrum-auction receipt.

What this total excludes

Assistance that funds public-safety radios often lacks NAICS and does not enter $1,410,126,949.80. In-house federal radio nets operated by agency staff are not 517312 contracts. Telecommunications resellers and other 517 residual classes are separate hubs.

Communications-equipment manufacturing is a 334 product class, not this carrier class. Mixed device-and-service vehicles follow the principal NAICS the officer selected. Facility cellular, device-and-plan vehicles, and multi-year mobility service can share 517312 when that is the principal class. The $1,410,126,949.80 total does not split those shapes across the 9,322 awards.

How to use the 517312 hub

Read $1.4 billion and 9,322 awards as the wireless-except-satellite tag, then open the wireless telecommunications carriers except satellite industry page for award-level fields. Rank 517 telecommunications codes on the all-industries index without converting this wireless class into a wired or satellite total.

This guide does not add tower inventories because they are not in the facts object. A public-safety radio grant that omits NAICS is not this carrier book. Quote obligations, not towers, and keep satellite links out because the Census title excludes satellite.

Classification limits

Wireless except satellite is not wired carriage and not satellite operators. SpendingVault reports the tagged 517312 sum.

Extract updates will move $1,410,126,949.80 and 9,322 with USAspending.

Mobility vehicles versus lines in service

Nine thousand three hundred twenty-two awards at $1,410,126,949.80 produce a mean of about $151,000. Wireless-except-satellite contracts mix device-and-plan vehicles with facility cellular and multi-year carrier service. The mean is not a handset price and not a gigabyte price. The Census title excludes satellite. A satellite-telecommunications award tagged to that 517 class is not this $1.4 billion. Wired carriers (517311) remain a separate hub.

Assistance that funds public-safety radios often omits NAICS and stays outside $1,410,126,949.80. In-house federal radio nets are not 517312 contracts. Communications-equipment manufacturing is a 334 product class. Open the wireless telecommunications carriers except satellite industry page for award-level fields. Rank 517 telecommunications codes on the all-industries index. Cite USAspending.gov. Unused service options mean obligated wireless dollars can exceed minutes already used. Extract updates will move both the dollars and the 9,322-award count. A searcher asking how much the federal government spent on wireless service should still separate terrestrial wireless carriers from satellite and from wired carriers. The $1,410,126,949.80 figure answers the NAICS 517312 question only. The 9,322-award count answers how many award identifiers carried that tag, not how many lines were active. Open the wireless telecommunications carriers except satellite 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 $151,000 into a price per handset.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 517312?

Wireless telecommunications carriers except satellite contracts in USAspending show $1,410,126,949.80 in obligations across 9,322 awards. That is a terrestrial wireless-carrier tag, not wired carriers and not satellite telecommunications. The figure is obligations, not outlays. Assistance without NAICS is excluded from this extract.

What is the average wireless-carrier award?

Dividing $1,410,126,949.80 by 9,322 awards yields about $151,000. That mean mixes line orders and multi-year mobility vehicles in this extract. It is not a price per handset and not a price per gigabyte. The packet does not publish a median or a subscriber count.

Does this include satellite telecommunications?

No. The Census title excludes satellite. Satellite telecommunications is a separate 517 class. Mixed terrestrial-and-satellite vehicles follow the principal NAICS the officer selected. This $1.4 billion is the except-satellite wireless tag. Use the satellite hub for satellite carriage, not this wireless code.

Are these dollars already paid to wireless carriers?

No. USAspending reports obligations on this hub, not outlays. Open service months and unused options can leave balances unliquidated after the award is recorded. The 9,322-award count is not a proof of lines in service. Cite USAspending.gov for the tagged extract on SpendingVault.