[Reposted from earlier posting in Rec.Radio.Amateur.Moderated]

U.S. License Changes over two 60 Day Periods from www.hamdata.com:

Hamdata information sorted from FCC publicly-available database of 24
April 2007
and [in square brackets] 24 January 2007:

New Licensees 2,730 [1,342]

Expirations 2,314 [2,101]

Class Changes 4,342 [ 985 ]

Call Changes 1,130 [ 214 ]

All Updates* 15,038 [16,536]

* Renewals, address or name changes, plus other administrative
changes.

The number of new licensees have approximately doubled since the
advent
of code testing cessation on 23 February 2007 compared to the December
2006 to January 2007 60-day period when code testing was required.

The number of license class changes have approximately quadrupled
since
the advent of code testing cessation on 23 February 2007. The number
of
callsign changes have almost quintupled.

Expirations are approximately the same. In the last 60 days the
number of
new licensees is greater than the number of expirations; for December
2006
and January 2007 the number of new licensees were less than
expirations.

The overall losses of all licensees (all classes including Club and
Grace
Period) over the previous two years were 11,143 [11.528]. This is
approximately the same for each period.

73, Len AF6AY