FCC Reports

Availability of Advanced Telecommunications Capability in the United States

This report concludes the Commission’s fourth inquiry into the availability of advanced telecommunications capability in the United States. Like the previous three reports, this Fourth Report concludes that the overall goal of section 706 is being met, and that advanced telecommunications capability is indeed being deployed on a reasonable and timely basis to all Americans.

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Carrier Locator Interstate Service Providers

This report is used by customers and other carriers to identify and locate sources of telecommunications service, by equipment vendors to identify potential customers, and by the FCC for various regulatory purposes.

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Common Carrier Scorecard

The Scorecard provides consumer information about telephone-related issues and performance information for individual telephone companies and for the common carrier industry as a whole. Consumers can use this information to make informed decisions about which companies and services they want to use. The common carrier industry can use this information to develop solutions to industry problems identified in consumer complaints.

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Fiber Deployment Update

This report presents fiber deployment data and associated information for interexchange carriers, incumbent local telephone companies, and competitive providers of exchange access or local exchange service who have constructed their own fiber facilities.

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Infrastructure of the Local Operating Companies

This report presents data that highlights the development of switching and transmission technologies in the local telephone networks.

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Local Competition Report

This report presents and updates available statistical material, data from Common Carrier Bureau surveys, and information mined from other public sources. It discusses preliminary statistical analyses of the effects of demographic and regulatory factors on the pattern of competitive entry into local telephone markets.

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Long Distance Market Shares

This report presents information on access minutes, presubscribed lines, and revenues for long distance telephone companies. Company shares of the long distance market are presented for each measure. Market shares are also reported according to each measure for the residential long distance market, and according to revenues for the international long distance market.

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Monitoring Report

This report presents data for the eleven subject categories selected for monitoring. The first section provides information on the contributions to the universal service support mechanisms and industry revenues, on which those contributions are now based. The next four sections provide information on the various support mechanisms: low income support; high cost support; schools and libraries support; and rural health care support. The remaining six sections provide information on matters that might be affected by the support mechanisms: subscribership and penetration; rates and price indices; network usage and growth; quality of service; infrastructure; and revenues, expenses and investment.

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National Exchange Carrier Association (NECA) Minutes of Use Data

These worksheets contain minutes of use (MOU) data for all NECA tier 1 and tier 2 companies.

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National Exchange Carrier Association (NECA) Network Usage Data

These worksheets contain dial equipment minute (DEM) and MOU data for all NECA tier 1 and tier 2 companies.

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National Exchange Carrier Association (NECA) Universal Service Fund Data

These worksheets contain universal service fund (USF) payment and loop data for all NECA tier 1 and tier 2 companies.

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Quality of Service Report of the Local Operating Companies

This report summarizes data submitted by major incumbent local operatingcompanies, on measures of service quality provided to business and residential end user customers, as well as service quality provided to access customers, namely interexchange carriers.

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Rate of Return Reports

These reports provide rate of return summaries for both price-cap and non-price-cap carriers. However, they are not necessarily the official versions relevant for rate of return enforcement and other regulatory purposes but they do illustrate general industry trends and are being made available for research.

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Reference Book of Rates, Price Indices and Expenditures for Telephone Service

This report contains information related to telephone rates, including both local and long distance rates. It also contains information on rates in rural areas, rate trends, and telephone expenditures.

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State-by-State Telephone Revenue and Universal Service Data

This report contains estimates of intrastate and interstate telephone revenue by state for 1998. Estimates of local exchange, wireless, access and toll revenue by state are also included.

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Statistics of Communications Common Carriers

This report contains a wealth of data on telecommunications costs, revenues, prices, and usage, and is divided into five sections: general information on industry structure; financial and operating data relating to telephone carriers; data on international communications and COMSAT Corporation; historical financial, economic, and rate tables; and data on industry trends.

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Statistics of the Long Distance Telecommunications Industry

The report contains information on revenues, market shares, number of companies, and international calling volumes. Also, it contains data on residential long distance calling, focusing on usage patterns, market shares, prices, and expenditures.

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Telecommunications Industry Revenue Data

Annual revenues summary based on data filed by carriers on FCC Form 499-A, the Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet; FCC Form 457, the Universal Service Worksheet; or FCC Form 431, the TRS Fund Worksheet. Includes revenues by type of service and by type of service provider.

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Telephone Penetration Report

This report presents data on telephone penetration levels by state for various income levels.

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Telephone Subscribership in the United States

The report presents subscribership statistics based on surveys conducted by the United States Census Bureau.

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Trends in Telephone Service

This report contains summary information about the size, growth, and development of the telephone industry, including data on market shares, minutes of calling, number of lines, and telephone subscribership. It also provides information about access charges, consumer expenditures for service, infrastructure, international telephone traffic, long distance carriers, telephone rates and price changes, and universal service support.

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