WORLDWIDE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT - CISE

EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920
Work Package: 6
Type of document: Report
Date: 20.12.2007
File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0
Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 104 / 356
- 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Jun/06
ILEC 177,561 171,917 164,386 153,158 144,810 143,766 142,250
CLEC 14,871 19,653 24,864 29,775 32,881 31,584 29,782
Total 192,431 191,571 189,250 182,933 177,691 175,350 172,032
CLEC 7.70% 10.30% 13.10% 16.30% 18.50% 18.00% 17.3%
Table 5-11 Fixed commuted accesses in service in the USA
Source: FCC
* Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC) and Competitive LEC
The number of fixed telephones in service got on the top in 2000, since then it is just have
been decreasing. CLECs were growing until June/05 when it got 33,891 thousand, but it
presented decrease in the 2Q06.
Public Telephony
In 1984 occurred the dismemberment of the AT&T in the United States with the formation of
AT&T (Long Distance) and seven regional local telephony operators (RBOCs): Ameritech,
Bell Atlantic, Bell South, Nynex, Pacific Telesis, South-Western Bell Corporation (SBC) and
US West.
These operators, as the GTE are known as "Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers" (ILECs).
With the telecommunications deregulation in US appeared the "Local Competitive Exchange
Carriers" (CLEC). In 2004 the CLECs had 32 million accesses: 57,7% were Unbundled,
16,5% resale and 25,9% proper ones.
The main ILECS are presented in the following table: Fixed Accesses in service (thousands).
- Created by 2004 2005 1Q06 2Q06