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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                   .             NEWS MEDIA CONTACT:
January 20, 2000                                        Mike Balmoris at (202) 418-0253
                                                                            Email: mbalmori@fcc.gov      
               

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

     Washington D.C. -- 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 for 1998.  Estimates of local exchange,
wireless, access and toll revenue by state are also included.  Telephone revenue by state for
1998 is estimated primarily using data from Telecommunications Industry Revenue and
from the Statistics of Communications Common Carriers.

     This report also summarizes universal support mechanisms by state for 1999.  Data
on universal support payments comes primarily from reports filed by the National
Exchange Carrier Association and the Universal Service Administrative Company.  The
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.  This report does not include information on the new programs for
schools, libraries, and rural health care providers.
  
     The State-by-State Telephone Revenue and Universal Service Data  report is prepared by
the Common Carrier Bureau's Industry Analysis Division.  The report is available for
reference in the FCC's Reference Information Center, Courtyard Level, 445 12th Street,
S.W., Washington, D.C. 20554.  Copies may be purchased by calling International
Transcription Services, Inc. (ITS) at (202) 857-3800.  The report, including the spreadsheets
containing the report's statistical tables and the figures, can be downloaded [file name:
STREV-98.PDF or STREV-98.ZIP] from the FCC-State Link internet site at
(http://www.fcc.gov/ccb/stats) on the World Wide Web.  

                                 -- FCC --

     Common Carrier Bureau contact:  James Eisner at (202) 418-0940; TTY:  (202) 418-
0484.