Monthly
Index 2015=100
1996 - 2025
Jan 1, 1996 to Dec 1, 2025
FRED
4 months ago
StaleJan 19, 2026
The Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices category "Telephone and Telefax Equipment and Services(08.2/3)" is a classification of services that includes purchases of telephones, radio-telephones, telefax machines, telephone-answering machines, and telephone loudspeakers; repair of such equipment (08.2.0), installation and subscription costs of personal telephone equipment (08.3.0), telephone calls from a private line or from a public line (public telephone box, post office cabin, etc.), telephone calls from hotels, cafés, restaurants, and the like (08.3.0), telegraphy, telex and telefax services (08.3.0), information transmission services; internet connection services (08.3.0), hire of telephones, telefax machines, telephone answering-machines, and telephone loudspeakers (08.3.0), and radiotelephony, radiotelegraphy, and radiotelex services. Telephone and Telefax Equipment and Services (08.2/3) excludes telefax and telephone answering facilities provided by personal computers (09.1.3).
As of December 1, 2025 • M data • Source: FRED
This dataset contains 360 monthly observations, over 29 years, 11 months, updated monthly from FRED. View Methodology
Data Points
360
Coverage
29 years, 11 months
Updates
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