{"id":1203,"date":"2006-11-02T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T08:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2006-11-02T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T08:39:00","slug":"where-are-the-missing-business-services-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1203","title":{"rendered":"Where are the missing business services lines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crtc.gc.ca\/eng\/NEWS\/RELEASES\/2006\/r060901.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"CRTC\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crtc.gc.ca\/images\/welcome.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"218\" \/><\/a>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crtc.gc.ca\/PartVII\/eng\/2006\/8663\/c12_200610924.htm\">Public Notice 2006-12<\/a>, the process to review the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crtc.gc.ca\/archive\/ENG\/Decisions\/2006\/dt2006-15.htm\">Local Forbearance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n<p>As observed with the residential market, business service revenues are remaining relatively constant in 2004 and 2005 at about $3.0B. If anything, revenues appear to be increasing moderately.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; text-align: left;\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Category<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align: center;\">31 December 2004<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align: center;\">31 December 2005<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align: center;\">31 August 2006<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">ILEC NAS<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align: center;\">5,216,005<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align: center;\">5,163,714<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align: center;\">5,080,403<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">non-ILEC NAS<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align: center;\">705,569<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align: center;\">884,123<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align: center;\">935,276<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Total Market<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align: center;\">5,921,574<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align: center;\">6,047,837<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align: center;\">6,015,679<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">industry revenues ($M$)<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align: center;\">$3,084<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align: center;\">$3,188<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align: center;\">$2,182<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-size:78%;\">Technorati Tags:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/CRTC\" rel=\"tag\">CRTC<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/local+forbearance\" rel=\"tag\">local forbearance<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Mark+Goldberg\" rel=\"tag\">Mark Goldberg<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the CRTC provided a summary of market statistics for residential service. 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