517122

Analysis

NAICS 517122 is the 2022 national industry for agents for wireless telecommunications services, part of 51712 (Telecommunications Resellers and Agents for Wireless Telecommunication Services). Census lists 6 example activities under it in the official index.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include agents for mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), agents for wireless telecommunications carriers, cellular telephone stores, selling cellular phone service… and mobile phone stores, selling mobile phone service plans on…, among 6 in all.

Census lists 3 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 517112, 517121 and 42. Businesses that do several things are classified by their primary activity, the one that generates the most value, so check those boundaries before settling on this code.

For example, operating and maintaining wireless telecommunications networks are classified in 517112 (Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)) instead.

County Business Patterns publishes no national count for it, either because the code is out of the survey's scope or because the figures are suppressed to protect individual businesses.