New Telephone Subscribership Report

[SOURCE: Federal Communications Commission]
On Monday, the Federal Communications Commission released its latest report on telephone subscribership levels in the United States. The report presents subscribership statistics based on the Current Population Survey (CPS) conducted by the Census Bureau in July 2005. The report also shows subscribership levels by state, income level, race, age, household size, and employment status. Highlights include: the telephone subscribership penetration rate in the U.S. was 94.0%; the telephone penetration rate was 79.8% for households with annual incomes below $5,000, while the rate for households with incomes between $75,000 and $99,999 was 98.5%; and households headed by whites had a penetration rate of 94.7%, while those headed by blacks had a rate of 89.7% and those headed by Hispanics had a rate of 89.1%. This report is updated three times a year and is available at http://www.fcc.gov/wcb/stats.
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* The FCC also released statistical information on the communications sector. Learn more about that at:
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-262058A1.doc