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FCC Releases New Data on Internet Access Services, Local Telephone Competition

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Internet Access Services: Status as of June 30, 2010, Industry Analysis and Technology Division, Wireline Competition Bureau, March 2011: “This report summarizes information about Internet access connections over 200 kilobits per second (kbps) in at least one direction in service in the United States on June 30, 2010, as collected by FCC Form 477. Form 477 gathers standardized information about subscribership to Internet access services in the fifty states, District of Columbia, and inhabited insular areas (American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands). The information is reported by telephone companies, cable system operators, terrestrial wireless service providers, satellite service providers, and other facilities-based providers of advanced telecommunications capability.
Notable developments during the first half of 2010 include:

  • Fixed-location Internet access connections increased by only 1% (from 81 to 82 million) while subscribers with mobile wireless devices and data plans for full Internet access increased by 27%
    (from 56 million to 71 million).

  • Fixed-location connections continue to dominate at speeds that meet or exceed the availability benchmark adopted in the Sixth Broadband Deployment Report (41 million fixed connections
    compared to 5 million mobile subscribers).”
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