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Orange, Fredericksburg, Winchester, Warrenton and Leesburg. Direct distance dialing will also be a new service offering for customers in Culpeper and surrounding areas when the new center is complete. Reed estimated the total cost of the project to exceed $4 1/2 million. Completion is scheduled for fall of 1968. Also discussed was C&P’s recent rate reduction in rural areas. Referring to his company’s ‘SPRED’ (Statewide Plan for Residence Exchange Development) program, Reed said the plan to offer higher grades of service to rural customers at much lower costs was being accepted enthusiastically by the public. However, he hastened to remind members present that the Virginia company’s under|
taking is costing C&P $6 million over and above normal construction and maintenance iprograms, affecting in excess I of 80,000 rural customers in Virginia and will require three years to complete, in many cases. ’ At the completion of the program members were presented a descriptive booklet on microwave, an application of long distance voice transmission being used extensively now throughout the Bell System.
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