FCC RELEASES FIBER DEPLOYMENT ANALYSIS

The FCC has released a  report entitled "Fiber Deployment Update
- End of
Year 1993."

This  report  presents  fiber  deployment  data  and  associated
information 
on  interexchange  carriers,  regional Bell holding companies, 
urban fiber 
systems, and  non-Bell local  operating companies. 

Current estimates indicate that interexchange carriers increased
their deployed
fiber by about  5.6% during 1993.  The local Bell operating
companies' 
deployed  fiber grew by about 27% during 1993 and stood  at
approximately
6.3 million fiber  miles at the end of the year.   Total 1993
fiber reported  by 
local operating companies exceeded 7.2 million fiber miles. 
Twenty urban
fiber entities listed in this year's study have deployed about
242,000 fiber miles
by the end of 1993.

Other local operating company data in the study include data on
fiber rings, 
fiber trials  and investment,  as well  as limited information on
deployed
subscriber copper and fiber.

This  report is  available in the reference room  maintained  by
the Common
Carrier Bureau's Industry  Analysis  Division at 1250 23rd
Street, N. W.,
Plaza Level.  Copies  may  be  purchased  by calling
International
Transcription Service, Inc. (ITS) at (202) 857-3800.

                                           -FCC-

For  further information,  contact Jonathan  Kraushaar at  (202)
632-0745 or
632-1368.