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Telecom facts:
International rates
and revenues
Interstate minutes
Interstate costs
Telecom revenues
Telephone CPI 1
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Area codes
Local loops
Employees
Wireless
Patents
Toll free numbers
Toll free revenue
High speed 1
High speed 2
High speed 3
SMS traffic
SMS revenue |
Working Toll-Free Numbers (Numbers in Millions)
Telephone Numbers Assigned for Toll-Free
Service (800, 888, 877, 866)
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(Summary December 1993 - December 2004)
( Source: FCC 2005 ) |
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Working |
Miscellaneous |
Total |
Spare Toll-Free |
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Year |
Month |
Toll-Free |
Toll-Free |
Toll-Free |
Numbers |
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Numbers |
Numbers
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Numbers |
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Assigned |
Available |
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1993 |
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December |
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3,155,955 |
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731,438 |
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3,887,393 |
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3,822,607 |
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1994 |
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December |
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4,948,605 |
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763,235 |
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5,711,840 |
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1,998,160 |
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1995 |
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December |
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6,700,576 |
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286,487 |
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6,987,063 |
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722,937 |
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1996 |
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December |
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9,527,982 |
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945,671 |
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10,473,653 |
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5,216,347 |
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1997 |
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December |
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12,980,714 |
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996,449 |
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13,977,163 |
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1,712,837 |
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1998 |
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December |
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16,200,883 |
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965,466 |
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17,166,349 |
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6,503,651 |
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1999 |
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December |
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19,677,001 |
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1,101,964 |
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20,778,965 |
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2,891,035 |
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2000 |
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December |
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23,022,015 |
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1,178,096 |
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24,200,111 |
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7,449,889 |
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2001 |
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December |
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23,453,029 |
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1,027,973 |
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24,481,002 |
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7,168,998 |
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2002 |
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December |
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22,496,215 |
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1,051,232 |
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23,547,447 |
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8,102,553 |
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2003 |
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December |
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21,108,662 |
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941,520 |
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22,050,182 |
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9,599,818 |
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2004 |
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December |
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22,159,440 |
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1,145,661 |
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23,305,101 |
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8,344,899 |
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Note: For individual month assignments through June 2003, see
Industry Analysis and Technology Division, Wireline Competition Bureau,
Trends in Telephone Service
(August 2003).
* Toll-free (800) service was initially offered by AT&T in 1967. On May 1,
1993, procedures for routing toll-free calls were changed and 800 numbers were
made "portable" so customers who switched service providers could retain their
numbers. Due to the growth in toll-free numbers, a new toll-free calling code,
888, was added in March 1996, which made it possible to assign about 8 million
new toll-free numbers. A third toll-free calling code, 877, was added in
April 1998; and a fourth toll-free code, 866, was added in July 2000.
* Miscellaneous numbers include those in the 800, 888, 877, and 866
service management systems maintained by Database Service Management, Inc., and
categorized as reserved, assigned but not yet activated, recently disconnected,
or suspended.
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