### Question
What is the definition of industry-wide?


### Answer
The definition of **industry-wide** is as follows in *47 U.S.C. § 273*:

> activities funded by or performed on behalf of local exchange carriers for use in providing wireline telephone exchange service whose combined total of deployed access lines in the United States constitutes at least 30 percent of all access lines deployed by telecommunications carriers in the United States as of February 8, 1996

#### Citation:
  - *47 U.S.C. § 273*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 5-WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION > SUBCHAPTER II-COMMON CARRIERS > Part III-Special Provisions Concerning Bell Operating Companies**

