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Telephone lines

Year	Value	Footnotes
1990	136114201	1, 2
1991	139412884	1, 2
1992	143341581	1, 2
1993	148106159	1, 2
1994	153447946	1, 2
1995	159659000	1, 2
1996	166446000	1, 2
1997	173867000	1, 2
1998	179850000	1, 2
1999	189502000	1, 2
2000	192513000	1, 2
2001	191570800	1, 2
2002	189250143	1, 2
2003	182933281	1, 2
2004	177690711	1, 2
2005	175160940	1, 2
2006	167459899	1, 2
2007	158418151	1, 2
2008	162763000	3, 4
2009	152963000	3
2010	151171000	3, 5

Telephone lines per 100 inhabitants

Year	Value	Footnotes
1990	53.73
1991	54.5
1992	55.5
1993	56.79
1994	58.24
1995	59.95
1996	61.79
1997	63.77
1998	65.17
1999	67.85
2000	68.15
2001	67.09
2002	65.61
2003	62.8
2004	60.43
2005	59.01
2006	55.9
2007	52.41
2008	53.37
2009	49.71
2010	48.7

Footnotes:

Local Loops"."
Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Federal Communications Commission
The December 2008 data includes only switched access lines. Because data for earlier years includes a largely unknown number of interconnected VoIP subscriptions, the data are not directly comparable over time.
2010 data are as of June 30, 2010

Source: United Nations Statistics Division

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