This is an unofficial announcement of Commission action. Release of the full text of a Commission order constitutes official action. The FCC has released a staff report titled Local Competition . The report presents a summary of currently available statistical material, information from Common Carrier Bureau surveys, and information mined from other public sources.
Information is presented for all states and, where available, for smaller geographic areas.
Revenues of local service competitors continue to increase rapidly, from a small base. Because the FCC does not have data on the number of customer lines that CLECs provide solely over their own facilities, the report does not contain information on the total number of customer lines that CLECs serve. By the third quarter of 1998, CLECs had received such resources in every state except West Virginia. These facilities-based CLECs are concentrated in more urbanized areas, as opposed to rural areas.