Last week, the CRTC provided a summary of market statistics for residential service. Yesterday, the CRTC released similar figures for business services. The data shows industry-wide figures for year-end 2004, 2005 and the first 8 months of 2006. Both sets of data were released as part of Public Notice 2006-12, the process to review the Local Forbearance.
For business services, the rate of ILEC losses has slowed, but perhapos the most interesting statistic is that the number of industry-wide business lines has fallen 0.5% in the first 8 months of 2006, as contrasted with 2% growth when looking at 2005 versus 2004. Where did the lines go?
As observed with the residential market, business service revenues are remaining relatively constant in 2004 and 2005 at about $3.0B. If anything, revenues appear to be increasing moderately.
| Category | 31 December 2004 | 31 December 2005 | 31 August 2006 |
| ILEC NAS | 5,216,005 | 5,163,714 | 5,080,403 |
| non-ILEC NAS | 705,569 | 884,123 | 935,276 |
| Total Market | 5,921,574 | 6,047,837 | 6,015,679 |
| industry revenues ($M$) | $3,084 | $3,188 | $2,182 |
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