January 26, 1999
                                                       
                                                                       

       COMMON CARRIER BUREAU RELEASES REPORT ON STATE-BY-STATE
            TELEPHONE REVENUE AND UNIVERSAL SERVICE DATA
                                  

     The FCC has released a new staff report titled State-by-State Telephone Revenue and
Universal Service Data.  This report contains estimates of intrastate and interstate telephone revenue
by state.  Estimates of local exchange, wireless, access and toll revenue by state are also included. 
Telephone revenue by state is estimated primarily using data from Telecommunications Industry
Revenue: 1997 and from the Statistics of Communications Common Carriers.

     The new report also summarizes data on high cost and low income universal service
mechanisms by state for 1998.  Data on universal service mechanism payments comes primarily from
the Monitoring Report released in December 1998.  The new report also presents estimates, based
primarily on the telecommunications revenue in each state, of amounts collected from
telecommunication users in each state to fund universal service mechanisms.  
     
     The report, along with the underlying materials upon which it is based,  is available for
reference in the Common Carrier Bureau Public Reference Room, 2000 M Street N.W., Room 575. 
Copies may be purchased by calling International Transcription Services, Inc. (ITS) at (202) 857-
3800.  The report can be downloaded [file name:  STREV-97.ZIP or STREV-97.PDF] from the
FCC-State Link internet site at http://www.fcc.gov/ccb/stats on the World Wide Web.  

     For additional information, contact James Eisner of the Common Carrier Bureau's Industry
Analysis Division, (202) 418-0940, or for user of TTY equipment call (202) 418-0484.


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