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FCC released its biannual report, Trends in Telephone Service, We...

FCC released its biannual report, Trends in Telephone Service, Wed. Among highlights: (1) High-speed lines connecting homes and businesses to Internet increased 36% in first half of 2001 to total of 9.6 million in service from 7.1 million at…

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end of Dec. 2000. (2) Number of calls from U.S. to other countries increased from 200 million in 1980 to 6.6 billion in 2000. (3) As of June 2001, competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) provided 17.3 million of 192 million nationwide local telephone lines that were in service to end users, up from 14.9 million at end of 2000.