Telephone loops of ILEC by holding company 2008

The statistic depicts the percentage of telephone loops of incumbent local exchange carriers (ILEC) in the United States by holding company as of December 2008. 44.66 percent of the telephone loops were held by AT&T Inc.

Distribution of ILEC telephone loops in the United States by holding company as of December 2008

Characteristic	Percentage of ILEC telephone loops
AT&T Inc.	44.66%
Verizon Communications Inc.	28.76%
Qwest Communications International, Inc.	8.78%
Embarq	4.49%
Windstream Corporation	2.3%
CenturyTel, Inc.	1.6%
Frontier Communications Corporation	1.4%
FairPoint Communications, Inc.	1.19%
America Movil	0.68%
Cincinnati Bell Inc.	0.55%
Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.	0.46%
Hawaiian Telcom Communications, Inc.	0.4%
Citizens Communications Company	0.25%
Consolidated Communications, Inc.	0.2%
Iowa Telecom	0.18%
Alaska Communications Systems Holdings, Inc.	0.15%
D & E Communications, Inc.	0.1%
Rock Hill Telephone Company	0.09%
North-State Telephone Co. (NC)	0.08%
SureWest Communications	0.07%
Horry Telephone Cooperative, Inc.	0.07%
Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Inc.	0.05%
Hargray Communications Group, Inc.	0.05%
Virgin Islands Telephone Corporation	0.05%
TeleGuam Holdings LLC	0.05%
Matanuska Telephone Association, Inc.	0.04%
Otelco Inc.	0.04%
Pioneer Telephone Cooperative (OK)	0.04%
Lynch Interactive Corporation	0.04%
Hickory Tech Corporation	0.04%
Atlantic Telephone Membership Corporation	0.03%
NTELOS, Inc.	0.03%
Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc.	0.03%
Guadalupe Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc.	0.03%
Twin Lakes Telephone Cooperative Corporation	0.03%
SRT Services Corporation	0.03%
Skyline Telephone Membership Corporation	0.03%
EATEL Corp., Inc.	0.03%
Ben Lomand	0.03%
All Other Companies	2.84%