High Speed Services for Internet Access (As of 12/31/02)

We summarize here information from the seventh data collection, thereby presenting a snapshot of subscribership as of December 31, 2002.  Subscribership to high-speed services for Internet access increased by 23% during the second half of 2002, to a total of 19.9 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 88% of the zip codes in the United States.