United States - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in United States was 101,526,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 192,513,000 in 2000 and a minimum value of 49,269,000 in 1960.

Definition: Fixed telephone subscriptions refers to the sum of active number of analogue fixed telephone lines, voice-over-IP (VoIP) subscriptions, fixed wireless local loop (WLL) subscriptions, ISDN voice-channel equivalents and fixed public payphones.

Source: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database.

See also:

Year Value
1960 49,269,000
1961 49,269,000
1962 49,269,000
1963 49,269,000
1964 49,269,000
1965 58,289,000
1966 58,289,000
1967 58,289,000
1968 58,289,000
1969 58,289,000
1970 69,039,000
1971 69,039,000
1972 69,039,000
1973 69,039,000
1974 69,039,000
1975 80,515,000
1976 82,802,000
1977 85,426,000
1978 88,431,000
1979 91,265,000
1980 94,282,000
1981 105,559,200
1982 107,519,200
1983 110,612,700
1984 112,550,700
1985 115,985,800
1986 118,289,100
1987 122,789,200
1988 127,086,800
1989 131,504,600
1990 136,114,200
1991 139,412,900
1992 143,341,600
1993 148,106,200
1994 153,448,000
1995 159,659,000
1996 166,446,000
1997 173,867,000
1998 179,850,000
1999 189,502,000
2000 192,513,000
2001 191,570,800
2002 189,250,100
2003 182,933,300
2004 177,690,700
2005 175,160,900
2006 167,459,900
2007 158,418,100
2008 162,763,000
2009 152,873,000
2010 149,652,000
2011 143,319,000
2012 138,595,000
2013 133,233,000
2014 128,495,000
2015 124,848,000
2016 121,343,000
2017 116,297,000
2018 110,333,000
2019 106,630,000
2020 101,526,000

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in United States was 30.67 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 68.34 in 2000 and a minimum value of 26.39 in 1960.

Definition: Fixed telephone subscriptions refers to the sum of active number of analogue fixed telephone lines, voice-over-IP (VoIP) subscriptions, fixed wireless local loop (WLL) subscriptions, ISDN voice-channel equivalents and fixed public payphones.

Source: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database.

See also:

Year Value
1960 26.39
1961 26.39
1962 26.39
1963 26.39
1964 26.39
1965 29.18
1966 29.18
1967 29.18
1968 29.18
1969 29.18
1970 32.95
1971 32.95
1972 32.95
1973 32.95
1974 32.95
1975 36.75
1976 37.45
1977 38.28
1978 39.26
1979 40.14
1980 41.09
1981 45.57
1982 45.98
1983 46.86
1984 47.24
1985 48.23
1986 48.73
1987 50.11
1988 51.37
1989 52.66
1990 53.99
1991 54.77
1992 55.78
1993 57.07
1994 58.51
1995 60.21
1996 62.03
1997 63.99
1998 65.36
1999 68.03
2000 68.34
2001 67.31
2002 65.88
2003 63.12
2004 60.78
2005 59.38
2006 56.24
2007 52.70
2008 53.63
2009 49.91
2010 48.43
2011 46.00
2012 44.13
2013 42.11
2014 40.32
2015 38.91
2016 37.57
2017 35.77
2018 33.73
2019 32.40
2020 30.67

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications