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TELECOMM

UNICATIONS

INDUSTRY ESTABLISHMENTS AVG. EMPLOYMENT

COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING 78 7,445

SEMICONDUCTOR AND OTHER ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MANUFACTURING

177 19,515

TELECOMMUNICATIONS 796 36,930

DATA PROCESSING, HOSTING, AND RELATED SERVICES 351 14,448

TOTAL 1,402 78,338

NUMBER OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS BUSINESSES

1 4 39

Number of Advanced Services Businesses

1 60 760

LEGEND:OCCUPATION

JOBS | MEDIAN HOURLY EARNINGS

COMPUTER NETWORK ARCHITECTS

4,614 | $51.11

COMPUTER HARDWARE ENGINEERS

2,496 | $51.73

RADIO, CELLULAR, AND TOWER EQUIPMENT

INSTALLERS AND REPAIRS

502 | $22.07

TELECOMMUNICATIONS LINE INSTALLERS AND

REPAIRERS4,325 | $25.05

SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSORS

1,231 | $17.55

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TELECOMMUNICATIONSDallas–Fort Worth is a crucial U.S. center for telecommunications fi rms. The bulk of them are located along the “Telecom Corridor” that stretches north of downtown Dallas through its suburbs of Richardson and Plano. The industry’s biggest names call the DFW region home, among them the global headquarters for the Fortune 100 ranked AT&T Inc., and the North American headquarters for Ericsson Inc., Alcatel-Lucent and Samsung Telecommunications America. New York–based Verizon Communications maintains a major business unit here employing some 8,000 workers in the area.

CROSSROADS OF COMMUNICATIONSTHE DFW AREA IS A CRUCIAL U.S. CENTER FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS FIRMS

THE TELECOM CORRIDORLocated 15 miles north of downtown Dallas, the Telecom Corridor encompasses approximately 30 square miles and includes the city of Richardson along with the Texas Instruments campus and the west side of Waterview Parkway near the University of Texas at Dallas campus.

The Telecom Corridor area is one of the most signifi cant and unique high-tech business concentrations in the United States.

Various telecommunications industries are represented in the area, including:

> Carriers/service providers

> Telecom equipment manufacturers

> Consulting fi rms

> Wireless communications companies

> Photonics/optics networking fi rms

Companies located here include AT&T, Fujitsu, Cisco Systems, Verizon, Samsung Mobile and MetroPCS.

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OMPUTER AND INFORMATION

SYSTEMS MANAGERS9,728 | $71.97

COMPUTER SYSTEMS ANALYSTS

16,964 | $45.43

SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS, SYSTEMS

SOFTWARE13,208 | $49.52

NETWORK AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS

ADMINISTRATORS10,805 | $41.30

SOURCE: 2016.3 – QCEW Employees, Non-QCEW Employees, and Self-Employed,; OES, 2015, Jobs EQ