[(Title)] Everybody Has a Cell Phone, So What's Next for the Wireless Industry?.

After a decade of extreme growth, the mobile market slowed to a crawl last year, according to new industry figures.

据新行业数据显示，在经历了十年的极端增长之后，移动市场去年开始出现爬行趋势。

The total number of connected devices rose just 1% to 400.2 million, the slowest rate of increase on record, while wireless service revenue slipped 5% to $179 billion, the second year in a row of decline,

连接设备总数仅增长1%，至4.02亿美元，创纪录增幅最慢，而无线服务收入下降了5%，降至1,790亿美元，这一数字连续下降。

the industry trade group CTIA reported in its annual survey on Tuesday.

行业贸易集团CTIA周二的年度调查报告了这一情况。

With 326 million people living in the United States, that is an average of more than 1.2 devices for every man, woman, and child in the country.

美国有3.26亿人居住，平均每个男人、女人和儿童使用的装置超过1.2台。

Wall Street is growing concerned about the maturing outlook for the industry–leading carrier Verizon (vz) has seen its stock unchanged this year, trailing the 4% gain in the S&P 500 Index, while second-ranked AT&T's (t) shares have slid 13%.

领先的Verizon (vz)今年股价保持不变，低于标准普尔500指数(S&P 500 Index)上涨4%，而AT&T股价下跌13%。

Still, the industry is looking ahead to the next wave of even faster wireless transmission technology, known as 5G.

尽管如此，业界仍期待下一波更快的无线传输技术，被称为5G。

Even while the number of new devices has leveled off, data usage has continued to surge and wireless carriers are building out 5G networks that will increasingly come into play over the next three to five years,

即使新装置的数量已经稳定，数据使用量继续激增，无线运营商正在逐步开发5G网络，在今后三至五年内这些网络将日益发挥作用。

possibly bringing in additional revenue from new services like always-connected smart devices.

可能带来新的服务收入，比如常连接智能设备。

The industry is pressing to have federal rulemakers free up more airwaves and ease the way for the addition of thousands of smaller cell sites needed for 5G by preempting local and state regulations.

该行业迫切要求联邦规则制定者释放更多的通道，为增加5G所需的数千个站点铺平道路。

"This year's report shows that wireless is on the cusp of a transformation to tomorrow's 5G networks and the Internet of Things,"  Meredith Attwell Baker, president and CEO of CTIA, said in a statement.

”CTIA总裁兼首席执行官梅瑞迪斯.阿德韦尔.贝克(Meredith Attwell Baker)在一份声明中说：“今年的报告表明，无线通信正成为未来5G网络和互联网转型的核心。"

Making the industry's key lobbying point,

Baker went on to say that the surge in data usage is  "underscoring the need for continued efforts to modernize infrastructure rules and create a spectrum pipeline that ensures continued U.S. wireless leadership in the global race to 5G."

贝克接着说，数据使用的激增突出表明，需要继续努力实现基础设施规则的现代化，并建立一个频谱管道，确保美国无线领导力在全球比赛持续到5G。

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At the end of 2017, mobile carriers had deployed 323,448 cell sites, just a 7% increase from five years ago, CTIA said.

CTIA表示，截至2017年底，移动运营商部署了323,448个站点，与5年前相比增加了7%。

But because 5G signals frequently don't travel as far as transmissions in today's 3G and 4G LTE networks, the industry may need as many as 800,000 sites to roll out 5G.

但是，由于5G信号通常不会传播到今天的3G网络和4GLTE网络，因此该行业可能需要多达80万个站点推出5G。

Most will be much smaller than today's cell towers, with radios strapped to tops of lamp poles and traffic lights, but some localities are pushing back concerned about ugly equipment installations and possible health hazards.

其中大部分将比今天的塔要小得多，用无线电固定在灯杆和交通灯的顶部，但有些地方却对丑陋的设备和可能的健康危害感到担忧。

Wireless data traffic totaled nearly 16 trillion MB of information, quadruple the level three years earlier and 40 times what customers used in 2010, CTIA said.

CTIA说，无线数据传输总量约为16万亿兆字节的信息，是三年前的四倍，是2010年用户使用量的四倍。

The decline in revenue and rise in data usage could be part of the reason why T-Mobile (tmus) and Sprint (s), the third and fourth-largest mobile carriers, are seeking to merge.

收入下降和数据使用率上升可能是TMobile(tmus)和第三和第四大移动运营商Sprint(Sprint)试图合并的原因之一。

Lower service revenue at Sprint, though not at T-Mobile, means less money to expand for 5G to meet the growing data demand.

斯普林特的服务收入较低，虽然不是在T-Mobile，但意味着为5G而扩张的资金会减少，以满足日益增长的数据需求。

Meanwhile voice and texting activity industry-wide has also declined. Customers talked on their phones for 2.2 trillion minutes, slightly less than in 2010, and sent 1.8 trillion text messages, down from 2.1 trillion in 2010.

与此同时，整个行业的语音和短信活动也减少了，客户们通过手机交谈，时间为2.2万亿美元，略低于2010年，并发出了1.8万亿短信，低于2010年的2.1万亿。