Form MQ334P Telecommunications

CURRENT INDUSTRIAL REPORTS SERIES
2008

MQ334P — TELECOMMUNICATIONS
DEFINITIONS AND SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS

1. Scope of survey
Do not include the following —
This survey covers the manufacture of all communications
equipment and parts in the United States. Included are
wire telephone and data communications equipment, radio
and television broadcasting equipment, wireless
communications equipment, alarm systems and laser
sources.
2. Figures to be reported

Products manufactured for you by others
Imports which are reshipped without further domestic
manufacture

Your figure should exclude —

Companies with more than one establishment
manufacturing the products covered by this survey are
requested to complete a separate report form for each
location. If you have not received a separate form for
each of your establishments, please call the contact
shown on the report form or write to the U.S. Census
Bureau.

Electric wiring devices (should be reported on survey
MA335K, "W iring Devices and Supplies").
Home entertainment electronic equipment, such as
home and automobile radio receivers, television
receivers, portable stereos/boom boxes, hi-fidelity
components, consumer audio and video tape recorders,
loudspeakers, microphones, DVD players, and public
address systems (should be reported on survey
MA334M, "Consum er Electronics").

a. Value of shipments
The figures on value of shipments should include the
physical shipments of all products sold, transferred to
other establishments within your company, or shipped on
consignment, whether for domestic or export sale. The
value represents the net sales price, f.o.b. plant, to the
customer or branch to which the products are shipped,
net of discounts, allowances, freight charges, and returns.
Shipments to your own branches should be assigned the
same value as comparable sales to unaffiliated customers,
i.e., the value includes an appropriate allocation of
company overhead and profit. Products bought and resold
without further manufacture should not be included in
shipments. For some products, the quantity of shipm ents
is not collected.

b. Columnar structure of report
W hen entering your figures on the report form, please be
sure to report the information in the correct column as
follows:
Column 1—

Value (report shipments in thousands of
dollars. Example: $1,000,000, report as
$1,000)

3. Definitions
The product detail for this survey is defined according to
CCITT and FCC nomenclature for the industry.

Shipments should include the following —
Private brand units as well as your own company brand
units
Leased machines and equipment — For products leased
or rented by your company, report the estimated value.
The estimate should approximate the value of the
products sold outright. If no such basis is available,
you may use the valuation placed on these items for
tax, insurance, or similar purposes.

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4. Comparability
If you also report in the Annual Survey of Manufactures
(Form MA 10000), the sum of values for item codes shown
in column (a) should correspond to the dollar values reported
under product codes indicated in column (b) below:
Current Industrial Reports
(Form MQ334P)

Annual Survey of
Manufactures
Product codes

Item codes
(a)

(b)

1205 through 1236

3342101

1312 through 1348

3342104

1400

3344184

1417 through 1490

3342107

1501 through 1529
1541 through 1547
1560 through 1567

3342203
3342205
3342209

1811 through 1838

3342202

1927 through 1949

3342901

2099

3342902

3099

3342903

5201 through 5205

3359997

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REFERENCE LIST
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MQ334P

Product
code

TELECOMM UNICATIONS
Item
code

Item description
TELEPHONE SW ITCHING AND SW ITCHBOARD EQUIPMENT

3342101105
3342101119
3342101125
3342101199

1205
1223
1234
1236

Central office switching equipm ent
Private branch exchange switching equipment
Other telephone switching and switchboard equipment
Parts, components and subassemblies for telephone switching equipment

3342101

1299

Total telephone switching and switchboard equipment (Sum of item codes 1205–1236)
CARRIER LINE EQ UIPMENT AND MODEMS

3342104112
3342104137
3342104142

1312
1337
1342

3342104145
3342104148

1345
1348

Multiplex equipment, including channel banks, analog and digital
All other carrier line equipm ent
External modems for POTS, ISDN, DSL, PSTN
Fiber optic equipm ent:
Equipment meeting SONET standards
Equipment not meeting SONET standards

3342104

1399

Total carrier line equipment and modems (Sum of item codes 1312–1348)

3344184

1400

External personal computer modems
W IRELINE VOICE AND DATA NETW ORK EQUIPMENT

3342107425

1417

Telephone sets, including wireless phone sets (exclude cell phones)

3342107426

1423

Other public switched telephone network (PSTN) type premise equipment (exclude PBX
equipm ent)

3342107228

1428

Routers

*3342107257

1450

Switches [include Local Area Network (LAN) and W ide Area Network (W AN]

3342107462

1462

Voice/call message processing equipment

3342107267

1472

Other data communications equipment, wireline type, including those with wireless
capabilities

3342107499

1490

Parts, components, and subassemblies

3342107

1499

Total wireline voice and data network equipment (Sum of item codes 1417–1490)

*Revised for 2008

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Product
code

Item
code

Item description
W IRELESS NETW ORKING EQUIPMENT

3342203103
3342203105
3342203107
3342203109
3342203111
3342203113
3342203

1501
1508
1515
1522
1527
1529
1530

Cellular base stations
Cellular mobile telephone switching equipment
Cellular handsets (cell phones)
W i- Fi public equipment
W i Max equipment
Other cellular networking equipment
Total wireless networking equipment (sum of items 1501-1529)
Radio Station Equipment:
(Include amateur, meteorological, fixed, telecommand, telemetry, radionavigational
and locational, aeronautical communications, mobile, broadcast, Earth exploration,
and intersatellite radio station types)

3342205104
3342205109
3342205114
3342205116
3342205

1541
1543
1545
1547
1550

Space based (satellite) stations
Airborne and marine based stations
Earth fixed based systems
Earth mobile based systems
Total radio station equipment (sum of items 1541-1547)
OTHER COMM UNICATIONS SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT

3342209101
3342209109
3342209125

1560
1565
1567

Checkout, monitoring, evaluation, and other electronic support equipment
Antenna systems sold separately
Other communications systems and equipment

3342209

1570

Total other communications systems and equipment (sum of items 1560 -1567)
BROADCAST, STUDIO, AND RELATED ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT

3342202107

1811

Audio production equipment for broadcast studios (include microphones, mixers, other
electronic equipm ent and parts and accessories for such equipm ent sold separately)

3342202113

1814

Video production equipment (include professional VCRs, switchers, character
generators, and other electronic equipm ent)

3342202116
3342202118
3342202119
3342202143
3342202144
3342202155
3342202199

1816
1818
1819
1827
1833
1837
1838

AM and FM transm itters
TV Transm itters
Other transmission equipment
Cable TV (master antennae and CATV equipm ent)
Closed circuit television systems
Other broadcast and antenna equipment
Parts and accessories

3342202

1839

Total broadcast, studio, and related electronic equipment (sum of item codes
1811–1838)

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Product
code

Item
code

Item description

3342901107
3342901111
3342901609

1927
1947
1949

Intrusion detection alarm systems
Fire detection and prevention alarm systems
Other alarm systems

3342901

1999

Total alarm systems (sum of item codes 1927— 1949)

3342902

2099

Total vehicular and pedestrian traffic control equipment, electrical railway signals and
attachments

3342903

3099

Total intercommunications systems, including inductive paging systems (selective
paging), except telephone and telegraph
LASER SOURCES

3359997101

5201

Nondiode lasers

3359997138

5205

Diode lasers

3359997

5290

Total laser sources (sum of item codes 5201 and 5205)
SELECTED NONMANUFACTURING REVENUES OF THIS ESTABLISHMENT

9999998900

9940

Resales— Sales of products bought and sold without further manufacture, processing, or
assembly

9999998041

9950

Research and development, testing and evaluation of systems and com ponents

NOTES:

12/12/07

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