Advanced telecom service lines connecting homes and businesses to...
Advanced telecom service lines connecting homes and businesses to the Internet increased 32% during the first half of 2003, to 16.3 million, FCC’s Trends in Telephone Service report said. It said ADSL lines rose 16% to 2.5 million during…
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the first 6 months of 2003, compared to a 43% increase to 11.9 million for cable modem lines. The report said CLECs provided 26.9 million (14.7%) of the about 183 million nationwide local telephone lines that were in service to end users, compared to 24.8 million (13.2%) of the lines in Dec. 2002. About 1/4 of CLEC end-user lines are served over local loop facilities that the CLECs own, it said. ILECs reported providing other carriers 2.2 million lines on a resale basis in June 2003, compared to 2.7 million 6 months earlier, the report said. ILECs also provided 17.2 million UNE loops in June 2003, compared to 14.5 million 6 months earlier, it said. The report said the number of international calls from the U.S. jumped to 5.9 billion in 2002 from 200 million in 1980. In 2002, it said Americans spent about $9.8 billion on international calls. On average, carriers billed 28 cents per min. for international calls in 2002 -- an 80% decline since 1980. The report said 29 million households had been added to the nation’s telephone system since Nov. 1983, to a total of 107.1 million in Nov. 2003. According to research firm TNS Telecoms, it said, the average monthly household telecom expenditures were $83 in 2002, including $36 to local exchange, $12 to long distance and $35 to wireless carriers. According to the CTIA, it said, the average monthly wireless bill was $49.91 in Dec. 2003, compared with $61.48 in Dec. 1993. The report said in 2003, total universal service support disbursements were $3.3 billion, compared to $3 billion in 2002. It said the increase reflected a full-year of the new interstate common line support mechanism, which began in July 2002. Disbursements of low-income support rose to $713 million in 2003 from $673 million in 2002, it said. In funding year 2002, it said $2.2 billion was committed and $1.3 billion disbursed to schools and libraries -- www.fcc.gov/wcb/stats.