CLECs served about 18 percent of the country’s local switched acc...
CLECs served about 18 percent of the country’s local switched access lines as of June 2007, the FCC said in a local telephone competition report. Consumers got local telephone service using about 134.5 million incumbent LEC switched access lines,…
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28.7 million CLEC switched access lines and 238.2 million mobile phone subscriptions. CLECs had customers in 82 percent of U.S. ZIP codes, which include about 98 percent of U.S. households. CLECs had 12 percent of the 97.6 million residential lines and 25 percent of the 65.6 million lines serving business, institutional and government customers. CLECs provided 38 percent of their switched access lines over their own local loop facilities, 40 percent by using unbundled network elements leased from other carriers and 22 percent through resale arrangements with unaffiliated carriers. Incumbent local carriers provided about 12 percent fewer UNE loops with switching, known as UNE-P, to unaffiliated carriers than they had reported six months earlier, and about 3 percent fewer UNE loops without switching. The local incumbents provided long distance services for 59 percent of their local lines, and CLECs 78 percent of theirs.