U.S. long distance revenue dipped in 2001 to $99 billion from $11...
U.S. long distance revenue dipped in 2001 to $99 billion from $110 billion in 2000, said an FCC report on “Statistics of the Long Distance Telecommunications Industry.” It said carriers providing long distance service, including wireless carriers, accounted for…
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more than $90 billion of the total revenue in 2001, and local telephone companies for the remaining $9 billion, vs. $101 billion for long distance carriers and $9 billion for local telephone companies in 2000. The report said international revenue had grown more than fivefold to $19.5 billion in 2001, representing 20% of total toll revenue, from less than $4 billion in 1984. As of May 1, the Commission said it had approved applications filed by the Bell companies to offer interLATA service in 41 states and D.C., and one application for Minn. was pending. The average revenue per min. for interstate calls fell to 8 cents in 2001 from 9 cents in 2000, and revenue per min. for international calls to 35 cents from 52 cents, the report said. Adjusted for inflation, interstate and international toll rates dropped 60% in 1991-2001, it said. The report said in 2002, the average household spent $83 a month on telecom, including $12 on services provided by long distance carriers, $36 on services by LECs and $35 on service provided by wireless carriers. By 2001, the report said, AT&T’s market share had declined to less than 38%, compared with 90% of all toll revenue in 1984. It said MCI had a 24% market share in 2001, Sprint 9%, Bells 6%, and more than 1,000 other long distance carriers had almost 24% of the market. The report said the 3 largest interexchange carriers collectively held 84.7% of the market in 1999 and 60.1% by 2002. The Bells, which didn’t provide long distance to households in 1999, had captured 15.8% of them by 2002, and the remaining 24.1% were served by other carriers, it said. Market share of intraLATA minutes for residential users fell slightly for the major long distance carriers and Bells, the report said. It said after a peak of 35% in 2000, AT&T, MCI and Sprint collectively billed 30.6% of intraLATA min. in 2002, and the Bells’ share of that market fell to 38.8% in 2002 from 43.2% in 2000. The share of interLATA minutes billed by the 3 largest interexchange carriers to residential users fell to 58.3% in 2002 from 80.7% in 1999. The report said the Bells had acquired 10.6% of interLATA min. by the end of 2002, and the remaining 31% of interLATA min. were billed by other carriers.