Mobile, VoIP Subscriptions Still Growing, Phone Lines Falling, Says FCC Voice Report
There were 326.5 million mobile voice subscriptions in the U.S. as of June 2015, along with 68.1 million traditional retail switched access lines and 56.8 million interconnected wireline VoIP subscribers, said an FCC voice services report listed in Monday's Daily…
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Digest. From June 2012 to June 2015, the annual compound growth rate was 3 percent for mobile voice subscriptions and 13 percent for interconnected wireline VoIP subscriptions, while retail switched access lines decreased 13 percent annually, said the report, which derived the figures from FCC Form 477 submissions of voice providers. Of 125 million wireline retail voice connections (both traditional and VoIP), 69 million (55 percent) were residential and 56 million (45 percent) were business, while ILECs had 66.9 million connections and non-ILECs had 58 million, it said.