High Speed Services for Internet Access (As of 12/31/00)

We summarize here information from the third data collection, thereby presenting a snapshot of subscribership at the end of the year 2000.  Subscribership to high-speed services for Internet access increased by 63% during the second half of the year 2000, to a total of 7.1 million lines in service.  At year’s end, the presence of high-speed service subscribers was reported in fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, and in 75% of the zip codes in the United States.