| 31. | Average monthly base rate for a residential access line
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| 32. | Fixed access lines increased to 2.3 million in 2013.
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| 33. | It costs us less to put in access lines,
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| 34. | It would give SBC more than access lines covering roughly 30 percent of the United States.
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| 35. | All the Bell companies are having trouble keeping local access lines in an increasingly competitive market.
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| 36. | The company now has 15.3 million access lines.
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| 37. | "The on-line revolution is boosting access line gains, " said Chairman and Chief Executive Raymond Smith.
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| 38. | Initially, access lines were so frequently busy as to make the cards nearly impossible to use.
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| 39. | Local access lines are needed for users to tap into the Internet without a toll charge.
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| 40. | Its growth in telephone access lines also slowed.
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