Number of U.S. working telecommunications channels

The statistic depicts the total number of working telecommunications channels in the United States between 1991 and 2007. In 2000, there were 219 million working telecommunications channels.

Total number of working telecommunications channels in the United States between 1991 and 2007 (in 1,000)

Characteristic	Working telecommunications channels in thousands
2007****	116,333
2006	125,767
2005	137,254
2004	148,278
2003	155,978
2002***	169,157
2001	228,705
2000**	218,928
1999*	186,387
1998	172,916
1997	149,429
1996	142,824
1995	136,231
1994	130,192
1993	124,191
1992	120,848
1991	118,654

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Release date

September 2010

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United States

Survey time period

Year end 1991 to year end 2007

Supplementary notes

Working Channels are reported in 4 kHz bandwidth (single-voice channel) equivalents.
* Southern New England Telephone Company merged with SBC Communications October 26, 1998. Their data are included in this table starting with 1999.
** Large increase in 2000 is due to the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE.
*** The large decrease from 2001 to 2002 is due in part to a number of Verizon companies refiling in order to remove interexchange carrier, point-of-presence, and co-location circuit counts to comply with ARMIS definitions.
**** In 2008, the Commission granted forebearance relief from filing this data.

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