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Friday, 28th July 2006

New Stats on Broadband Usage in the U.S.: High-Speed Connections to the Internet Increased by 33% in 2005

High-Speed Connections to the Internet Increased by 33% in 2005

From the news release:

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today released new data on high-speed connections to the Internet in the United States. Twice a year, all facilities-based broadband providers are required to report to the Commission basic information
about their service offerings and types of customers pursuant to the FCC’s local telephone competition and broadband data gathering program (FCC Form 477). Statistics released today reflect data as of December 31, 2005...We summarize here information from the thirteenth semi-annual data collection, thereby presenting a snapshot of subscribership as of December 31, 2005.3 High-speed lines connectin homes and businesses to the Internet increased by 18% during the second half of 2005, from 42.4 million to 50.2 million lines in service, compared to a 12% increase, from 37.9 million to 42.4 million lines, during the first half of 2005. For all of 2005, high-speed lines increased by 33% (or 12.3 million lines). The presence of high-speed service subscribers was reported in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, and in 99% of the Zip Codes in the United States.

Complete Report, Lots of Charts and Tables) (27 pages; PDF)

• End-user customers obtained local telephone service by utilizing approximately 143.8
million incumbent LEC switched access lines, 31.6 million CLEC switched access lines, and 203.7 million mobile telephony service subscriptions at the end of 2005.
• Of the 31.6 million CLEC end-user switched access lines, 5.1 million lines were provide over coaxial cable connections. The 5.1 million lines represent about 50% of the 10.1 million end-user switched access lines that CLECs reported providing over their own local loop facilities.
• Mobile telephony service providers reported 203.7 million subscribers at the end of 2005, which is 22.6 million, or 12%, more than a year earlier. About 6% of these subscribers were billed by mobile telephony service resellers.
• At least one CLEC was serving customers in 82% of the nation’s Zip Codes at the end of 2005. About 98% of United States households resided in those Zip Codes. Moreover, multiple carriers reported providing local telephone service in the major population centers of the country.
• The 31.6 million lines reported by CLECs is about 18% of the 175.4 million total enduser switched access lines reported for the end of 2005.
• CLECs reported 13.9 million (or 13%) of the 108.3 million lines that served residential end users and 17.7 million (or 26%) of the 67.1 million lines that served business, institutional, and government customers.

Complete Report/Full Text (24 pages; PDF)

Source: FCC

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