SUMMARY "THE FCC SHOULD GET THEIR NUMBERS STRAIGHT AND THEN TELL US THE TRUTH ABOUT COMPETITION IN THE QWEST STATES"   TO READ THE TELETRUTH COMPLAINT: http://www.newnetworks.com/fcccomplaintaboutqwestld.htm This week the FCC granted Qwest entrance into long distance in 9 of its 14 states. It claims that there's plenty of competition --- an average of 18% of all lines in these states, with some states, such as Utah and Colorado, having 23% of all lines. The problem is --- These numbers have no basis in any reality, and none of the information presented matches. TeleTruth has filed a complaint with the FCC alleging that: "The statistics the FCC presents in its own reports, the information presented by Qwest in its annual and quarterly reports and the numbers presented in the FCC’s analysis of Qwest’s application to enter the long distance markets ----DO NOT MATCH. Using only data supplied by the FCC and Qwest The Qwest 2ndQ2001 and 2002 reports show that competition is only 5% of local phonelines, while their state filings are showing an average of 18%. Meanwhile, the number of lines reported by the FCC for Qwest was 24 million for 2001, up from 2000, while the Qwest reports shows there was a decline and that there are less than 18 million. Even the state data supplied by the FCC doesn't remotely match the information in the Qwest applications.... it goes on and on. What's worse is the fact that the number of actual residential local phone service subsribers using a competitor is totally missing -- The Telecom Act states that competition was to lower prices. It was NOT for competition in the Long Distance markets, where there's been plenty of competition. The reason the Bells are allowed into long distance was as a carrot to open their networks for local residential phone competition. The FCC needs to answer -- Is there local facilities based residential phone service competition or is the FCC simply doing this wholesale long distance entry to short-change customers and support the local monopoly? And how many phonelines are there by state and why doesn't the FCC information match the Qwest numbers?