U.S. telephone loops of ILEC by holding company in 2008

The statistic depicts the telephone loops of incumbent local exchange carriers (ILEC) in the United States by holding company as of December 2008.

Distribution of telephone loops of incumbent local exchange carriers in the United States by holding company as of December 2008

Characteristic	Number of telephone loops
AT&T Inc.	54,748,156
Verizon Communications Inc.	35,252,762
Qwest Communications International, Inc.	10,769,489
Embarq	5,507,418
Windstream Corporation	2,817,678
CenturyTel, Inc.	1,967,338
Frontier Communications Corporation	1,718,677
FairPoint Communications, Inc.	1,459,312
America Movil	834,149
Cincinnati Bell Inc.	679,326
Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.	567,754
Hawaiian Telcom Communications, Inc.	489,167
Citizens Communications Company	310,627
Consolidated Communications, Inc.	247,020
Iowa Telecom	222,579
Alaska Communications Systems Holdings, Inc.	188,815
D & E Communications, Inc.	118,346
Rock Hill Telephone Company	113,085
North-State Telephone Co. (NC)	92,834
SureWest Communications	91,404
Horry Telephone Cooperative, Inc.	82,755
Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Inc.	67,170
Hargray Communications Group, Inc.	66,722
Virgin Islands Telephone Corporation	62,514
TeleGuam Holdings LLC	56,381
Matanuska Telephone Association, Inc.	52,718
Otelco Inc.	49,883
Pioneer Telephone Cooperative (OK)	49,533
Lynch Interactive Corporation	46,162
Hickory Tech Corporation	45,535
Atlantic Telephone Membership Corporation	41,854
NTELOS, Inc.	41,443
Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc.	39,787
Guadalupe Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc.	39,684
Twin Lakes Telephone Cooperative Corporation	36,105
SRT Services Corporation	35,622
Skyline Telephone Membership Corporation	34,807
EATEL Corp., Inc.	34,024
Ben Lomand	33,156
All Other Companies	3,484,802