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And there's a problem with the FCC's finding - Common wisdom says that there was a decline in copper-based access lines.
Moreover, the majority of copper-based access lines have not even been maintained and there are multiple investigations in multiple states over the condition of the networks.
Extrapolating the number of lines based on the lines associated with the 2007 special access revenues of AT&T et al., we found that the $24 billion could represent 350 million copper-based access lines, not in the current 'access line' accounting; $40 billion could be almost 600 million access lines.
"Local Service" are the revenues from basic copper-based "POTS", Plain Old Telephone Service, and ancillary services, like Call Waiting, while this accounting of "Access" represent the mostly copper-based access services, with the largest sub-category being 'special access', now called "Broadband Data Services".
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This chart is based on the same FCC 2007 report, showing that the copper-based special access services represented about $18 billion for just AT&T, Verizon and CenturyLink.
These are the exact same copper-based special access lines that the FCC has blocked us from examining.
Moreover, the FCC's recent data showed that mostly copper-based special access services represented 60% of this $40 billion market in revenue -- i.e., in America, in 2013, there was $24 billion in revenues for copper-based (TDM), telecommunications-based, special access services.
If there is $24 billion dollars (in 2013) of mostly copper-based TDM, special access service revenues, a doubling of the revenues since 2007, then exactly how can anyone say that access lines went down?
"Yet, despite all the evidence pointing to the end of the copper era, the competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) seem hell bent on championing the imposition of greater regulation on quickly disappearing copper-based TDM special access services".
In this paper, regulatory policies with regard to Next Generation Access (NGA) networks are analysed through a four-part categorisation: (i) conventional type (i.e., copper-based) regulation, (ii) no imposition of mandatory access, (iii) regulatory holiday, and (iv) full deregulation.
Historically, the special access services, which are "Title II", were the copper-based services, (commonly called "TDM").
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