High Speed Services for Internet Access (As of 06/30/02)

We summarize here information from the sixth data collection, thereby presenting a snapshot of subscribership as of June 30, 2002.  Subscribership to high-speed services for Internet access increased by 27% during the first half of 2002, to a total of 16.2 million lines in service.  The presence of high-speed service subscribers was reported in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, and in 84% of the zip codes in the United States.