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Telecom Sector Today – Competition is Real and Growing

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Telecom Sector Today – Competition is Real and Growing

U.S. Wireless Households’ Primary Choice For Communications At Home

More Lines Into the Home

Dial-up Internet Users Are Making Fewer Long Distance Calls

Broadband Internet Users Are Making Even Less Long Distance Calls

Broadband Technology is Being Deployed and is Nascent, Competitive Market

Broadband Forecast: 2001-2007

Cable dominates the North American marketplace

Broadband Remains a Small Segment of the Residential Market

Telecom Investment is Crucial to Economic Growth in the U. S. But the Sector is Suffering

Telecom Sector Overview

Bell Companies Make Major Capital Expenditures – Huge Impacts on the Economy

Telecom Meltdown—Human/Economic Costs

Future Innovations Affected by Cutbacks in Telecom Spending

What Can States Do?

We Need a Turnaround in the Industry’s Prospects

NCSL Contact: jo.anne.bourquard@ncsl.org

NCSL Home Page: http://www.ncsl.org/

Other information:
"FCC: Who Regulates Broadband and Local Phone Competition"
2003 Annual Meeting
San Francisco, California
July 2003

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