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C R E A T I N G S O L U T I O N S T H A T W O R K 3
phantom traffic, universal service funding
and inter-carrier compensation.
As this unfolds, we anticipate greater
clarity into the market dynamics that will
drive our operating and investment strategies.
We are working today to ensure CenturyTel
is in the best possible strategic position
throughout this pivotal time and in the years
ahead. We are building a high-quality broad-
band network infrastructure, strengthening
our customer relationships and maintaining
our financial flexibility so we can move quickly
and decisively when opportunities arise.
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Our history of strategic and consistent
investment in our network infrastructure has
resulted in a high-quality, broadband-capable
network that positions CenturyTel to meet
customer needs today and in the future. We
believe broadband will be the key enabler for
future growth at CenturyTel and we continue
to enhance our broadband capabilities to
deliver the home networking, managed net-
work services, advanced IP and Ethernet
solutions that we anticipate will drive our
success. We have developed a well-defined
broadband roadmap to guide our decisions
We added more than 120,000 high-speed Internet
customers during 2006 and our high-speed Inter-
net penetration reached 22.4 percent at the end
of 2006, up from 15.1 percent at year-end 2005.
Our history of strategic and consistent investment in our network infrastructure has resulted in a
high-quality, broadband-capable network that positions CenturyTel to meet customer needs today
and in the future.
as the industry continues to evolve from a
switched, narrow-band platform to an IP-
enabled broadband platform.
CenturyTel’s access line density is among
the lowest in the industry at approximately
12 lines per square mile; yet, at the end of
2006, we had enabled nearly 79 percent of
our access lines for broadband services. We
added more than 120,000 high-speed Internet
customers during 2006 and our high-speed
Internet penetration reached 22.4 percent at
the end of 2006, up from 15.1 percent at year-
end 2005.
High-speed Internet Customers
in thousands
53
02
83
03
143
04
249
05
369
06
Broadband Deployment
% of total access lines
59
02
63
03
71
04
75
05
79
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