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US Economic Census 2022 - NAICS 3342 Communications Equipment Manufacturing
- Coverage
- United States national, regions, states, counties…
Industry hub · Communications equipment data provider
Communications Equipment Data Providers
Datadory covers communications equipment data provider with 8 datasets spanning US Economic Census 2022 - NAICS 3342 Communications Equipment Manufacturing , World Bank Mobile Cellular Subscriptions (IT.CEL.SETS) Indicator and FCC ID Equipment Authorization Database (FCCID.io mirror) . Delivered daily, weekly, or hourly — your call.
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The manifest
Every catch in this slice, ranked by our quality rubric — depth of documentation, freshness, breadth. Pick one, sample it, ship it.
#2
World Bank Mobile Cellular Subscriptions (IT.CEL.SETS) Indicator
#3 FCC / FCCID.io
FCC ID Equipment Authorization Database (FCCID.io mirror)
- Coverage
- Devices authorized for the United States market
#4 International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database - Global & Regional Time Series (2005-2025)
- Coverage
- World, six ITU BDT regions (Africa
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World Bank API - ICT Indicators JSON Service
- Coverage
- All World Bank member economies plus regional and income…
#6 World Bank Data / ITU
World Bank - Fixed Telephone Subscriptions per 100 People IT.MLT.MAIN.P2
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- 217+ World Bank member economies and aggregates…
Plus 2 more in this slice — each with its field dictionary and sample rows on its own page.
The lay of the water
Where communications equipment data provider data actually comes from.
Communications Equipment is the hardware half of the telecom stack: telephone apparatus, radio and television broadcasting equipment, and the other communications gear that never carries a consumer brand.
Datadory covers this industry with 8 datasets spanning two kinds of evidence that rarely sit in the same room - official statistics that count the factories, and regulatory filings that name the devices.
The official-statistics cluster anchors the pool.
The US Economic Census 2022 for NAICS 3342 reports establishments, employment, payroll and revenue across 130 variables for the three six-digit industries - 334210 telephone apparatus, 334220 radio and television broadcasting and wireless communications equipment, and 334290 other communications equipment - down to county level.
The ICT indicator family alone carries 17,490 country-year records for a single series at full history.
Regulatory filings form the second cluster, and it is the one unique to this industry.
The FCC equipment authorization record indexes every RF device authorized for US marketing: 76,774 active grantee registrations accumulated since 1998, each linking grants, test reports, manuals and photos, with new applications listed daily through August 2026.
A single grantee code, Apple BCG, holds 940 FCC IDs - the kind of depth that turns a certification archive into a competitive-intelligence corpus.
Data.gov completes discovery with a 552,271-record federal catalog searchable by telecommunications keyword.
That split is the page's thesis: if your question is "how big is the manufacturing base," you want the Census counts; if it is "who just certified a rival handset," you want the filing mirror; if it is "which economies are still adding lines," you want the country-year panels.
Datadory delivers all three as one catalog.
Pick your catch
Three to start with. The rest of the board is above.
Communications equipment data provider United States national, regions… · Reference year 2022
US Economic Census 2022 - NAICS 3342 Communications Equipment Manufacturing
NAICS2022 · NAICS2022_LABEL · ESTAB …+10 more
Communications equipment data provider
World Bank Mobile Cellular Subscriptions (IT.CEL.SETS) Indicator
Communications equipment data provider Devices authorized for the United… · Grantee registrations from April 1998
FCC ID Equipment Authorization Database (FCCID.io mirror)
FCC ID · Grantee Code · Product Code …+10 more
Communications equipment data provider World, six ITU BDT regions (Africa · Annual, 2005-2025 (a separate…
ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database - Global & Regional Time Series (2005-2025)
Indicator · Unit · Region/Group …+1 more
Communications equipment data provider All World Bank member economies plus… · Annual, 1960s-1970s through 2025…
World Bank API - ICT Indicators JSON Service
page · pages · per_page …+9 more
Communications equipment data provider 217+ World Bank member economies and… · 1960-2025 (annual)
World Bank - Fixed Telephone Subscriptions per 100 People IT.MLT.MAIN.P2
country.value · countryiso3code · date …+4 more
Communications equipment data provider 217+ World Bank member economies plus… · 1990-2025 (annual)
World Bank - Individuals Using the Internet (% of Population) IT.NET.USER.ZS
indicator.id · indicator.value · country.id …+4 more
Communications equipment data provider
Data.gov Catalog - Telecommunications & Carrier Datasets
Who fishes here
Market researchers size the US manufacturing base by geography, reading establishments and revenue from the Economic Census cells before narrowing to a county shortlist; site-selection and economic-development teams run the same NAICS-by-county cuts for jobs and payroll.
Competitive-intelligence analysts monitor rival hardware launches by watching new FCC ID applications and grant dates, then open the test reports and manuals attached to each filing.
Sales teams prospect the same corpus in reverse, turning the grantee directory into OEM lists that span registrants in the United States, China, Italy, Latvia and the UK.
Strategy analysts and consultants model global demand by joining the ITU aggregates with the World Bank panels - absolute cellular volume for market size, penetration rates for headroom, internet adoption for service attach.
Quant researchers build backtestable macro features from the same country-year frames, which reach back to 1960.
Journalists, academics and students anchor citations to the institutional publishers - Census, ITU, World Bank - and best data for communications-equipment teams collects that shortlist.
- Competitive Intelligence & Product Teams Communications equipment data for competitive intelligence and product teams starts at the FCC stage: the FCCID.
- Data Scientists & ML Engineers
- Developers & Data-Product Builders
- E-commerce Operators Communications equipment data for e-commerce operators starts with World Bank - Individuals Using the Internet (% of Population) IT.
- Investors & Quant Researchers
- Journalists, Academics & Students
- Market Researchers & Consultants
- Sales & Growth Teams
Choosing between them
Three attributes decide it in this pool.
Grain: the Census runs industry-by-geography cells; the World Bank panels run country-year; the FCC corpus runs per-device filing records.
Match the unit of analysis before anything else - a county employment figure and a certification date are answers to different questions.
Depth: the landline series reaches to 1960, cellular observations begin in 1976, the ITU aggregates start in 2005, and the FCC directory opens in 1998.
Adoption curves predate the aggregates layer by decades, and the regulatory window covers the smartphone era only.
Wide flatters spreadsheets, long flatters warehouses, documents flatter search.
Frequently asked questions
How many companies manufacture communications equipment in the United States?
The US Economic Census 2022 NAICS 3342 dataset answers by geography: establishment and firm counts for 334210 telephone apparatus, 334220 radio and television broadcasting and wireless communications equipment, and 334290 other communications equipment, reported across 130 variables down to county level with employment, payroll and revenue alongside.
How do I track when a competitor's device received FCC certification?
Query the FCC corpus by company name or product code and read the grant date on each resulting filing; new applications are listed daily and RSS feeds cover news, FRNs, documents and applications without authentication. Full-text search reaches inside filing documents, so product names resolve even when the FCC ID does not.
Is there historical fixed telephone line data going back decades?
Yes - World Bank indicator IT.MLT.MAIN.P2 tracks fixed telephone subscriptions per 100 people annually from 1960 to 2025 for all member economies and aggregates, sourced from the ITU. It is the longest continuous series in this pool and the standard input for wireline-decline and copper-retirement models.
Where do I get US government broadband and carrier datasets?
Start with the Data.gov Telecommunications Keyword Search, which surfaces ranked dataset metadata from FCC, NTIA, Census and state publishers inside a 552,271-record federal catalog, with facet filtering and bounding-box geospatial queries. Harvesting runs continuously, so new federal telecom records appear within days of publication.
Can I benchmark internet adoption across countries for client deliverables?
World Bank indicator IT.NET.USER.ZS measures the share of each country's population using the internet annually from 1990 to 2025 across more than 217 economies, with female/male and urban/rural splits available in companion indicators. It is the standard digital-adoption benchmark cited in consulting decks and policy briefs.
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