Wireless Infrastructure By The Numbers: 2025 Key Industry Statistics

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the U.S. wireless infrastructure sector, covering purpose-built cellular towers, indoor and outdoor small cells, macrocell sites, annual infrastructure investments, and the American workforce sustaining this essential industry. The following key statistics show the strength of the U.S. wireless infrastructure industry at the end of 2025:

• 158,500 purpose-built cellular towers were in operation;
• 254,850 macrocell sites, not including small cells, were in operation;
• 198,100 outdoor small cells were in operation;
• And 830,350 indoor small cell nodes were in use, including DAS, small cells, private CBRS networks, mmWave, and other licensed frequency bands.