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The Rappahannock Electric Cooperative is surveying its customers to determine the need for an elaborate — but expensive — system to install satellite dishes which will be capable of receiving more than 100 channels.
REC mailed letters to its customers in Rappahannock County describing the proposed system and asking that interested persons return an attached survey form.
An analysis of those returns will be made at a later date and the results could be out as early as mid-September, according to Francis Updike of the REC.
Should the program be started, the proposal suggests that a “separately operated but wholly owned subsidiary of REC” would be formed to provide the service.
REC has not set a level of acceptance that would determine whether the company would undertake the proposal.
In a telephone interview this week, Updike said that a “commitment (to provide such a service) has not been made, I’d like to make that clear from the start.”
Some 15,000 surveys will be mailed to other customers later this week, in addition to some 15,000 already sent to customers throughout the service area.
REC sells its service to 47,000 customers in 17 counties, Updike said.
And, of those surveys received, 900 of the 2,430 returned — 37 percent — favored installing the system imme
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