High Speed Services for Internet Access (As of 06/30/01)

We summarize here information from the fourth data collection, thereby presenting a snapshot of subscribership as of June 30, 2001.  Subscribership to high-speed services for Internet access increased by 36% during the first half of the year 2001, to a total of 9.6 million lines in service.  The presence of high-speed service subscribers was reported in fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, and in 78% of the zip codes in the United States.