This is not the case with terrestrial capacity. The given figure represents the average amount of sold LEC inter-office bandwidth in use in the given year. Each link sold separately is included in the aggregate. Company figures are broadly in agreement with available bandwidth data from company reports. Anomalous US West figure for 1997 was corrected in light of data in company annual report.
Year listed is year cable went into operation, with given available capacity.
Table A2 gives average prices for channel terminations, which connect an end-user location to a local exchange carrier office. The prices in Table A2 are calculated in the same way as the inter-office figures in Table 4, except there is no per mile charge applied to channel terminations. Average prices for DS3 channel terminations have risen significantly since 1995, while prices for VG and DS1 channel terminations have risen slightly. The overall revenue weighted price fell sharply from 1999 to 2000 because revenue associated with DS1 and DS3 channel terminations grew much faster than that for DDS 56Kbps and VG channel terminations. Hence the trends apparent in those tables give a fairly complete picture of the aggregate price trends for LEC leased line services.