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October 16, 2014 Mark Wigfield at (202) 418-0253
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FCC RELEASES NEW DATA ON INTERNET ACCESS SERVICES AND LOCAL 
TELEPHONE COMPETITION
Washington, D.C. – The Federal Communications Commission has released its latest reports on 
Internet access service connections and local telephone services in the United States.
Titled Internet Access Services and Local Telephone Competition, respectively, the reports are 
based on data submitted by service providers every six months on FCC Form 477.  The reports 
include data collected by the FCC through December 31, 2013.    
Highlights from the reports include the following:
· The number of connections with downstream speeds of at least 10 Mbps increased by 
104% over December 2012, from 60 million to 122 million connections, including 64 
million fixed connections and 58 million mobile connections.
· The number of mobile subscriptions with speeds over 200 kbps in at least one direction 
grew from 169 million to 197 million – up 17% from December 2012. 
· In voice services, there were 85 million end-user switched access lines in service, 48 
million interconnected VoIP subscriptions, and 311 million mobile voice subscriptions, 
or 444 million retail local telephone service connections in total as of December 31, 
2013.  
· Over the three years between December 2010 and December 2013, interconnected VoIP 
subscriptions increased at a compound growth rate of 15%, mobile voice subscriptions 
increased at a compound annual growth rate of 3%, and retail switched access lines 
declined at 10% a year.      
The Commission adopted changes to its FCC Form 477 program in June 2013 to assume 
responsibility for the collection of data on broadband deployment, an effort previously overseen 
by the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) in coordination with 
the States, to implement a new approach for reporting broadband connection speeds of fixed and 
mobile services, and to require reporting of wireline voice subscribership at the census tract level 
as has been required for wireline broadband subscribership.  Additional information about these 
requirements is available at http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/form-477-resources-filers. 
 
The Internet Access Services and Local Telephone Competition reports can be downloaded at 
http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/statistical-reports-telephone-and-broadband-services.  They are 
also available for reference in the FCC’s Reference Information Center, Courtyard Level, 445 
12th Street, SW, Washington, DC, 20554.  Copies may be purchased by calling Best Copy and 
Printing, Inc. at (800) 378-3160.  
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