LOCAL LOOP SALES

Local loop sales-Allied Business Intelligence predicts that advanced technologies will account for 12 percent of the local-loop equipment sales of the $10.5 billion market in 1996. By 2000, this figure should rise to 28 percent of total expenditures for local loop. The new technologies contributing to the local loop market include ISDN, SONET, ATM, AIN, broadband video, PCS and LMDS. PCS equipment sales for local loop telephony will jump 75 percent from 1996 to 2000.