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Network Investments at 4-Year High as Carriers Build 5G Networks: CTIA

U.S. wireless providers invested $29.1 billion in their networks last year, a four-year high, as they built out 5G, said CTIA in its annual survey, released Tuesday. “This significant investment helped prepare U.S. wireless networks for the traffic spikes and…

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shifts from COVID-19 this year and to handle last year’s 37 trillion MBs of mobile data, which represents a 30% increase from the year prior and is 96 times the amount of mobile data used in 2010,” CTIA said: Mobile traffic increased by 30% over the previous year and industry added more than 46,000 more cellsites. Wireless connections increased by more than 20 million to 442.5 million, CTIA said.