Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Our first question is from the line of John Rogers - D.A. Davidson.
John Rogers - D.A. Davidson
But, total backlog at the end of the quarter.
Steven E. Nielsen
John, it was $1.47 billion, which was up about $278 million from the October quarter.
John Rogers - D.A. Davidson
And did you also give us the breakdown between telecom and utility line locating?
Richard L. Dunn
I haven’t, John. I’ll give you that now. The telecom installation was 45.2%, cable TV 30.5%, utility locating 17.2%, and electrical and other activities 7.1%.
John Rogers - D.A. Davidson
What was the growth rates for those year-over-year? I am just trying to understand the slowing that you saw, Steve. You’ve talked about showing up after the first of January, and I am just trying to understand which end markets we’re seeing it in. Because the other thing is, you said 12.7% organic growth.
Steven E. Nielsen
No. John, it was 8.9%. Maybe I can help you a little bit. We’re giving it directionally because we are not going to start a habit of talking about individual monthly results, but this was if we think about November’s organic growth rate as solid double digits, December as solid single digits, and as January as slightly negative, low single digits. That’s how we got the 8.9%. So it was a pretty significant downturn in January.
And we think about it in a couple of ways John, and you can calculate this yourself, kind of, between our top five customers and all other. And I think probably we had obviously, some softness with the top customers, but even the all other customers essentially were breakeven organic growth. And that’s a list of customers that’s in the hundreds. So, lots of smaller customers. So it just was noticeably softer in January.
John Rogers - D.A. Davidson
And I know that you weren’t looking for a big recovery in terms of revenue growth in this next quarter, but what gives you the confidence that we will see that market coming back without recovery in housing or the general economy?
Steven E. Nielsen
I think the guidance that we’ve given, John, at the top end says that essentially on an organic basis that we are flat or down slightly, and at the low end that we still see some softening. And we are only a little, four weeks into the quarter.
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