Telecom Statistics
Health Care
Health IT can prevent 200,000 adverse drug effects each year.
- “Health Information Technology: Can HIT Lower Costs and Improve Quality?” RAND Corporation
2005 Health Care Savings to Seniors? $800 Billion
-“Great Expectations: Potential Economic Benefits To The Nation From Accelerated Broadband Deployment To Older Americans And Americans With Disabilities,” Robert E. Litan for New Millennium Research
Environment
Telecommuters gain the equivalent of four extra weeks of vacation.
- Sage Research
Broadband can reduce greenhouse gases by 1 billion tons in 10 years.
- “Broadband Services: Economic and Environmental Benefits,” Joseph P. Fuhr and Steven B. Pociask, American Consumer Institute, 10/31/07
US telecommuters will save 840 million gallons of gas this year.
Telecommuters save enough electricity to power 1 million US homes.
- “The Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Impact of Telecommuting and e-Commerce,” Tiax for Consumer Electronics Association, 7/2007
Economy
Telecoms will invest $70 billion in broadband infrastructure this year.
- “Spending Wave Buoys Makers of Network Gear,” Wall Street Journal, 2/14/2007
US broadband adoption increased 55% (from June 2006 - June 2007).
Nearly 66 million Americans now have broadband in the home.
There are 1,360 broadband service providers in the US today.
- FCC, 03/2008
Bandwidth demand is expected to increase 300-500% per year.
- “Tech Execs See Convergence Lifting Broadband Demand,” Baseline, 6/21/2007
Broadband Competition Data
High Speed Lines (at least 200kbps in one direction) (
March 2008)
|
Total (data as of 06/30/07) |
Residential (data as of 06/30/07) |
| ADSL |
27,516,171 |
24,690,513 |
| SDSL and traditional wireline |
1,028,654 |
117,437 |
|
SDSL |
319,932 |
104,944 |
| Traditional wireline |
708,722 |
12,493 |
| Cable modem |
34,408,553 |
33,340,678 |
| Fiber |
1,402,652 |
1,152,195 |
| Satellite and Wireless |
36,560,197 |
6,598,329 |
|
Satellite |
668,803 |
530,357 |
|
Fixed Wireless |
586,141 |
522,752 |
|
Mobile Wireless |
35,305,253 |
5,545,220 |
| Powerline and Other |
5,420 |
5,347 |
| Total Lines |
100,921,647 |
65,904,499 |
Voice
| Total Telecommunications Providers (September 2007) |
5,428 |
| Fixed Local Service Providers |
2,572 |
|
ILECs - 1,311 |
|
|
CLECs and CAPs - 1,005 |
|
| Wireless |
939 |
| Toll Service |
1,373 |
| Residential & Businesses Access Lines (March 2008) |
163.1million |
| Mobile wireless telephone subscribers |
238.2million |
|
|
Universal Service
| Households with Telephone Service (March 2008) |
112.2million |
| Percentage of Households with Telephone Service (March 2008) |
94.9% |