FCC’s latest report on long distance industry—Statistics of th...
FCC’s latest report on long distance industry -- Statistics of the Long Distance Telecommunications Industry -- includes variety of data for 1999: (1) Long distance industry had $108 billion in revenue in 1999, up from $105 billion in 1998.…
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(2) International revenue has grown fivefold since 1984 to more than $20 billion in 1999. (3) AT&T’s share of long distance market had fallen to 40% in 1999 from 90% in 1984. WorldCom’s share in 1999 was 25%, Sprint’s 10% and more than 700 other long distance carriers had remaining 25%. (4) Average household spent $64 per month on telecom services, $21 for services provided by long distance carriers, $34 for local exchange, rest for wireless carriers. (5) Residential phone bills showed 38% of toll calls in 1999 were interstate and accounted for 50% of toll min.; 33% of residential long distance min. were accrued on weekdays, 30% on weekday evenings, 37% on weekends.