How much money does the average American Household (each phone number)
send per month on Long distance telephone calls.  The answer should
include International calls, State-to State calls and In-State toll
calls.  I am looking for usage only. Not the cost of basic dial tone
service.

Hi Chris!

According to a 1999 survey, the average American household spends
$21/month for long distance services:

"According to a sampling of residential telephone bills, in 1999 the
average household spent $64 monthly on telecommunications. Of this,
$21 were for services provided by long distance carriers, $34 for
services by local exchange carriers and the remainder for services by
wireless carriers."

Additonally, of these charges, 38% of long distance calls were
interstate, and accounted for 50% of toll calling revenues.

Statistics of the Long Distance Telecommunications Industry
http://www.utilityregulation.com/reports/request-file.cfm?t=d&f=ldrpt101.pdf

(You'll need to register to view the full report, but it's free and
only takes a second to do so.)

Total revenues by vendor (Sprint, GTE, Worldcom, etc.) can be found on
page 9 of this report, or detailed household usage by vendor by means
of an extensive marketing report.  The cost of the report is $2400:

Long Distance Competition: IP Telephony, RBOCs, IXCs and Fiber
http://www.gii.co.jp/english/sg4524_yy_long_distance_toc.html

Additional long distance data can be found at UtilityRegulation.com,
which offers a variety of telecommunications reports, including
earlier breakdowns of residential long distance spending:

FCC Reports
http://www.utilityregulation.com/reports/rt2.htm

I hope this information suits your needs.  If you need further
assistance, just ask, and I'll be glad to help.

--Missy

Search terms: [ "residential long distance" statistics ]

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Clarification of Answer by missy-ga on 28 Nov 2002 15:52 PST

A little further digging reveals that you can access these reports
without registration at the FCC website:

FCC State-Link
http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Reports/FCC-State_Link/lec.html

The page isn't quite as "eyeball friendly" as that of
UtilityRegulation.com, but you won't have to surrender any personal
information to use it.  The report listed in my answer is available
here, scroll down to "Statistics of the Long Distance
Telecommunications Industry".

--M

http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Reports/FCC-State_Link/IAD/ldrpt101.pdf