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Trends in Telephone Service Trends in Telephone Service Industry Analysis Division Common Carrier Bureau August 2001 This report is available for reference in the FCC’s Information Center at 445 12th Street, S.W., Courtyard Level. Copies may be purchased by calling International Transcription Service, Inc. at (202) 857-3800. The report can also be downloaded [file names: TREND101.ZIP, TREND101.PDF] from the FCC-State Link Internet site at <www.fcc.gov/ccb/stats>. Table of Contents Introduction.................................................................................................. 1-1 Access Charges ............................................................................................ 1-3 Table 1.1 Interstate Per-Line Access Charges ..........................................................................1-5 Table 1.2 Interstate Per-Minute Access Charges ......................................................................1-6 Table 1.3 Interstate Per-Line Access Charges by Carrier..........................................................1-7 Table 1.4 Interstate Per-Minute Access Charges by Carrier......................................................1-8 Advanced Telecommunications.................................................................... 2-1 Table 2.1 High-Speed Lines.....................................................................................................2-3 Table 2.2 Advanced Services Lines..........................................................................................2-3 Table 2.3 Residential and Small Business High-Speed Lines......................................................2-3 Table 2.4 High-Speed Lines by Technology..............................................................................2-4 Consumer Expenditures............................................................................... 3-1 Table 3.1 Household Expenditures for Telephone Service.........................................................3-3 Chart 3.1 Monthly Telephone Service Expenditures..................................................................3-3 Table 3.2 Average Monthly Household Telecommunications Expenditures by Type of Provider.........................................................................................................3-4 Earnings ....................................................................................................... 4-1 Table 4.1 Interstate Rate-of-Return Summary...........................................................................4-3 Employment and Labor Productivity........................................................... 5-1 Table 5.1 Annual Average Number of Employees in the Telephone Communications Industry................................................................................................5-3 Chart 5.1 Annual Average Number of Employees in the Telephone Communications Industry................................................................................................5-3 Table 5.2 Labor Productivity Index for the Telephone Communications Industry Measured in Output per Hour .............................................................................5-4 Chart 5.2 Telephone Communications Industry (SIC 481) Labor Productivity Index..................5-4 Table 5.3 Number of Telecommunications Service Providers That Are Small Businesses .......................................................................................................................5-5 International Telephone Service.................................................................. 6-1 Table 6.1 International Service from the United States to Foreign Points....................................6-3 Table 6.2 International Telephone Service Settlements ..............................................................6-4 Table 6.3 International Message Telephone Service for 1999....................................................6-5 Chart 6.1 U.S. Billed Minutes by Country.................................................................................6-5 Table 6.4 U.S. Billed Revenues of Facilities-Based and Facilities- Resale Carriers in 1999...........................................................................................................................6-6 Table 6.5 Top Providers of Pure Resale International MTS in 1999 ..........................................6-7 i Lifeline and LinkUp Programs..................................................................... 7-1 Table 7.1 Lifeline Monthly Support by State or Jurisdiction.......................................................7-5 Table 7.2 Lifeline Assistance - Subscribers by State or Jurisdiction............................................7-6 Table 7.3 LinkUp Assistance - Subscribers by State or Jurisdiction...........................................7-7 Table 7.4 Lifeline Assistance Annual Payments by State or Jurisdiction......................................7-8 Table 7.5 LinkUp Assistance Annual Payments by State or Jurisdiction.....................................7-9 Table 7.6 Universal Service Payments ....................................................................................7-10 Lines ............................................................................................................. 8-1 Table 8.1 Total U.S. Telephone Lines.......................................................................................8-3 Table 8.2 Telephone Loops of Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers by State.............................8-4 Table 8.3 Telephone Loops of Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier by Holding Company...........8-5 Table 8.4 Additional Residential Lines for Households with Telephone Service..........................8-6 Table 8.5 Number of Payphones Owned by LECs and Independent Operators.........................8-7 Local Telephone Competition...................................................................... 9-1 Table 9.1 Total End-User Lines Reported ................................................................................9-5 Table 9.2 End-User Lines by Customer Type...........................................................................9-5 Table 9.3 Reporting Competitive Local Exchange Carriers........................................................9-6 Table 9.4 Reporting Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers ..........................................................9-6 Table 9.5 End-User Lines Served by Reporting Local Exchange Carriers..................................9-7 Table 9.6 Nationwide Local Service Revenues and New Competitors’ Share............................9-8 Table 9.7 Telephone Numbers Transferred or Ported ...............................................................9-9 Long Distance Telephone Industry............................................................ 10-1 Table 10.1 Toll Service Revenues by Carrier...........................................................................10-5 Table 10.2 Intrastate, Interstate, and International Toll Revenues..............................................10-8 Chart 10.1 Toll Revenues by Market Segment.........................................................................10-8 Table 10.3 Residential and Nonresidential Toll Revenues .........................................................10-9 Chart 10.2 Residential and Nonresidential Toll Revenues .........................................................10-9 Table 10.4 Number of Toll Carriers.......................................................................................10-10 Table 10.5 Number of Carrier Identification Codes (CICs) Assigned by North American Numbering Plan Administrator ...................................................................10-11 Table 10.6 Alternative Measures of Long Distance Carrier Development................................10-12 Table 10.7 AT&T, ILECs and Other Toll Service Providers' Toll Revenues...........................10-13 Chart 10.3 AT&T’s Share of Toll Revenues..........................................................................10-13 Table 10.8 Share of Total Toll Service Revenues - Long Distance Carriers Only............................................................................................................10-14 Table 10.9 Share of Total Toll Service Revenues - All Long Distance Toll Providers ............................................................................................................10-14 Table 10.10 Residential Market Share: 1995 - 2000...............................................................10-15 Table 10.11 Market Share of Residential Direct-Dial Minutes by State: 2000.........................10-16 Table 10.12 BOC Applications to Provide In-Region InterLATA Service...............................10-17 Minutes....................................................................................................... 11-1 Table 11.1 Dial Equipment Minutes.........................................................................................11-3 ii Table 11.2 Line Usage per Day...............................................................................................11-4 Table 11.3 Interstate Switched Access Minutes.......................................................................11-5 Chart 11.1 Interstate Switched Access Minutes.......................................................................11-5 Mobile Wireless Service............................................................................. 12-1 Table 12.1 Mobile Wireless Telephone Subscribers as Reported on FCC Form 477................12-3
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