How many fixed line customers do Verizon and SBC have each?

Hello.

"Verizon is one of the largest employers in the United States, serving
over 95 million wireline customers in 34 states."
http://foundation.verizon.com/04008.shtml

Apparently, though, Verizon must be counting more than one "customer"
per line because a closer look at the company's data indicates that,
as of December 31, 2002, Verizon had 57,973,842 wirelines. This figure
included: 37,460,235 consumer wirelines, 19,991,859 business wirelines
and 521,748 coin-operated lines.
Source: Verizon Access Lines
http://investor.verizon.com/profile/xl/access_lines-4q-02.xls

By comparison, as of December 31, 2002, SBC had a total of 50,823,000
retail wirelines.
That figure included 31,366,000 consumer wirelines and 19,457,000
business wirelines.
Additionally, SBC had 527,000 coin-operated lines.
Source: SBC Statistical Profile: Wireline Operations
http://www.sbc.com/Investor/Growth_Profile/download/wireline.pdf

search strategy: sbc.com , verizon.com

I hope this helps. If any of this is unclear, please use the "request
clarification" feature. Thanks.

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Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 10 Feb 2003 21:43 PST

Thank you for the tip.
-juggler

Thanks