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Fact Sheet
Massachusetts Phone Competition at a Glance
Verizon filed with the Federal Communication
Commission on Sept. 22 for approval to offer long distance to
Massachusetts customers. The filing followed a 16-month state review and
independent tests to evaluate the company's compliance with requirements
of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Below are some relevant
facts.*
- Over 800,000 Massachusetts telephone customers are served by
competitors (293,000 Verizon wholesale lines and 514,000
competitor-built lines).
- Verizon systems process about 1,400 local service requests daily in
Massachusetts received from Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs).
- Verizon meets or exceeds 99 percent of the 804 test criteria
examined in an eight-month independent test of the company's systems
helping competitors to serve Massachusetts customers.
- 14 million telephone numbers have been assigned to competitors.
- More than 44 active resellers and 37 facilities-based carriers use
Verizon's Operating Support Systems to serve Massachusetts customers.
- AT&T Broadband, formerly MediaOne, currently offers local phone
service to about 800,000 customers in 92 Bay State communities.
- Verizon has 99 interconnection agreements, more than 330,000
interconnection trunks and 1,700 collocation arrangements helping
AT&T, MCI WorldCom, Sprint, RCN, AT&T Broadband and others serve
Massachusetts customers.
- Competitors have access to 95 percent of residence lines and 96
percent of business lines through current and pending collocation
arrangements.
- 15.9 billion minutes of traffic terminated on competitors' networks
in 1999, up 162% over 1998. In 2000, traffic terminating on competitors'
networks was over 19.5 billion minutes through November, a 22% increase
over year-end 1999 volumes.
- Verizon has interconnected with about 50 CLEC switches.
- ATT Broadband now serves 2.5 million cable subscribers in
Massachusetts and passes another 1.5 million
- ATT has cable franchises in over 200 of the 351 cities and towns in
the Commonwealth. This is by far ATT Broadband's largest single market.
* All data as of November 2000
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