*Pages 1--1 from 5581.xls* TABLE 6 - Top 30 Countries Circuit Status 1999 1999 Combined 1999 1998 1997 1996 IMTS P. L. Other Active Idle IMTS/( PL IMTS/ PL IMTS/ PL IMTS/ PL Reg 1999 1998 1997 1996 Total Total Total Total Total + Other) Split Split Split Code Rank Rank Rank Rank Country Br. Ckts Br. Ckts Br. Ckts Br. Ckts Br. Ckts Split * Ratio Ratio Ratio 1 1 2 3 3United Kingdom 54,780 205,954 15,601 276,335 57,258 0.25 0.34 0.78 0.69 5 2 1 1 1Canada 77,827 112,021 10,542 200,390 152,901 0.63 1.03 1.25 1.41 5 3 3 2 2Mexico 84,536 42,083 0 126,619 10,593 2.01 1.38 1.57 2.09 7 4 4 4 4Japan 8,681 35,134 1,677 45,492 29,283 0.24 0.57 0.65 0.73 1 5 5 5 5Germany 9,261 21,484 541 31,286 13,521 0.42 0.76 0.64 0.83 1 6 8 13 8 Netherlands 1,831 20,687 30 22,548 17,721 0.09 0.34 0.58 0.56 8 7 7 6 7Australia 2,521 14,830 347 17,698 6,060 0.17 0.65 0.97 0.92 1 8 9 7 6France 5,346 8,390 2,010 15,746 4,474 0.51 1.67 0.95 0.99 7 9 11 10 10 Hong Kong 1,313 9,767 264 11,344 4,229 0.13 0.26 0.42 0.52 7 10 10 8 9 Korea, South 2,678 7,289 35 10,002 5,178 0.37 0.56 0.59 0.98 1 11 6 9 15 Sweden 3,198 6,568 0 9,766 1,806 0.49 0.28 0.30 0.60 6 12 12 11 11 Brazil 1,939 7,556 221 9,716 1,505 0.25 0.58 0.64 1.24 1 13 14 19 21 Switzerland 1,991 6,570 0 8,561 2,133 0.30 1.43 1.11 1.33 3 14 24 26 28 Israel 1,141 5,093 180 6,414 582 0.22 0.82 1.28 1.77 7 15 19 20 20 Singapore 867 4,748 152 5,767 2,604 0.18 0.43 0.40 0.56 6 16 29 n. a. n. a. Chile 1,081 4,585 38 5,704 1,308 0.23 0.82 1.09 1.96 7 17 13 12 14 Philippines 3,143 1,847 2 4,992 2,574 1.70 2.17 3.43 5.05 6 18 16 16 16 Venezuela 1,913 2,412 0 4,325 1,700 0.79 1.31 1.49 2.14 1 19 n. a. n. a. n. a. Denmark 1,267 234 2,520 4,021 542 0.46 2.89 5.82 7.00 6 20 23 29 29 Argentina 779 3,150 30 3,959 1,128 0.24 0.46 0.76 1.34 6 21 28 27 23 Colombia 1,391 2,273 24 3,688 1,313 0.61 1.26 1.54 3.11 7 22 15 17 17 Taiwan 1,647 1,837 48 3,532 4,580 0.87 0.71 1.64 2.32 7 23 n. a. 21 18 India 1,453 1,986 23 3,462 734 0.72 1.44 1.77 2.50 1 24 17 18 12 Italy 2,650 709 92 3,451 1,765 3.31 2.60 2.09 2.34 9 25 26 28 27 Russia 1,528 1,484 40 3,052 439 1.00 1.53 2.38 3.53 7 26 22 25 22 China 1,673 1,320 21 3,014 1,223 1.25 1.92 3.56 4.27 4 27 20 14 13 Dominican Republic 2,297 556 0 2,853 633 4.13 5.17 3.10 2.15 2 28 n. a. n. a. n. a. Egypt 270 2,365 0 2,635 68 0.11 1.04 1.75 3.63 7 29 21 24 n. a. Malaysia 680 1,927 0 2,607 173 0.35 0.37 0.37 1.54 1 30 18 15 26 Spain 1,493 1,057 2 2,552 1,878 1.41 1.73 1.65 6.01 Top 30 International Points Corciots 281,175 535,916 34,440 851,531 329,906 0.49 0.75 1.09 1.28 Total for all International Points 310,401 561,786 34,711 906,898 344,695 0.52 0.81 1.18 1.41 Top 30 as % of all Intern'l Points 90.6% 95.4% 99.2% 93.9% 95.7% Regional Total Western Europe 87,857 276,164 20,796 384,817 105,885 0.30 0.47 0.85 0.93 Africa 2,756 4,519 0 7,275 947 0.61 1.79 3.55 5.82 Middle East 2,970 8,824 270 12,064 1,109 0.33 0.86 2.21 3.13 Caribbean 8,828 3,296 0 12,124 4,295 2.68 4.55 5.52 5.00 North and Central America 164,749 156,844 10,646 332,239 164,466 0.98 1.16 1.38 1.64 South America 8,720 22,654 314 31,688 7,872 0.38 0.86 1.06 1.89 Asia 24,745 67,451 2,239 94,435 51,845 0.36 0.71 0.88 1.15 Oceania 4,433 17,139 406 21,978 6,978 0.25 0.75 1.04 1.08 Eastern Europe 5,343 4,416 40 9,799 1,298 1.20 2.84 2.71 6.36 Other Regions 0 479 0 479 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Total for all International Points 310,401 561,786 34,711 906,898 344,695 0.52 0.81 1.18 1.41 * Due to the large amount of data circuits that were reported under "Other Services" in 1999, it is more appropriate to include "Other Services" under this split calculation and include it in the denominator as a proxy for the voice/ data split. For other years, the split calculation only used "IMTS/ PL", other services were not in the denominator. Page 1 1