ATIS Releases Telecom Network Reliability Report

December 12, 2005

The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) said 2004 was a "great year for network reliability" as measured by outage frequencies reported to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) by wireline telecommunications providers.

The Network Reliability Steering Committee (NRSC) Annual Report 2004 analyzes major outage reports made to the FCC from Jan. 1, 1993, through Dec. 31, 2004. Highlights from the report include:

• The lowest number of outages observed since the NRSC began its analysis of industry trends in 1993.
• Facility outages were at a record low in terms of both number of events and impact.
• Lowest number of local switch outages ever observed.
• Second lowest frequency ever for tandem switch outages.
• A five-year trend of 19% annual reduction in total outage frequency.
• An eight-year trend of 13% annual reduction for facility outage frequency.

The full text of the NRSC Annual Report 2004 can be found at http://www.atis.org/nrsc/annualrpt.asp.

Source: Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS).