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The Charlotte Business Journal reports on the Federal Communications Commission Local Telephone Competition report: as of December 31, 2004, cellphone subscribers totalled 5.36 million, and landlines were 4.99 million.

pdf and zip copies of the FCC report are at Local Telephone Competition and Broadband Deployment. pdf is here and zip is here.

Competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) increased their market share from 9% to 13% in 2004, compared with a nationwide increase from 15% to 18%.

Source: N.C. wireless phones outnumber wire lines.