Reply #40

wireline traffic continues to decrease, as it should since new technologies continue to "thankfully" replace tip&ring As shown, VoIP traffic and wireless traffic continue to increase year after year. There's another report they have somewhere showing the billions of MOU a month but not finding that easily right now and people keep wanting to IM me today LOL

(disclaimer, I work for a competitor to Verizon )

http://transition.fcc.gov/wcb/
3/21/11
FCC Releases New Data on Internet Access Services, Local Telephone Competition.
News Release: Word | Acrobat
Internet Access Services Report: Acrobat
Local Telephone Competition Report: Acrobat



One snippet from one doc from the FCC

Highlights from the Internet Access Services report include the following:
• 60% of connections were slower than the benchmark 4 megabits per second (Mbps) download speed identified by the FCC as the minimum bandwidth generally required to accommodate today’s uses: high-quality voice, data, graphics, and video.
• Growth of fixed broadband service appears to have flattened at 1% in the first half of 2010, to 82 million connections.

Highlights from the Local Telephone Competition report including the following:
• Interconnected VoIP grew by 21% between June 2009 and June 2010.
• Conventional switched access lines (i.e., traditional wireline telephone lines) decreased by 8% between June 2009 and June 2010.
• 28% of all residential wireline connections were interconnected VoIP as of June 2010.
• An estimated 77% of interconnected VoIP subscribers received service through a cable provider.
• The number of subscriptions to wireless phone service grew by 5% in the year.