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Thomas Wilkins, who started the process that led to polling Centel’s 675-exchange customers about whether they are willing to pay $4.48 more to be able to call people with Culpeper numbers, is optimistic that the enlarged service area will be approved locally.
He began by contacting the State Corporation Commission in Richmond. He found out that he would have to get 20 percent of Centel’s Washington customers to sign a petition to get the enlarged service area. He said getting those signatures was easy. 1
Then Centel had three months to do a study to determine how much the extended service would cost. They took five months, he said. Centel said the fact that they were being purchased by Sprint was the reason for the delay. That study prompted the survey of customers now going on.
Now it’s a matter of waiting to see the result of the current poll. If 50 percent of the 675 customers answer the poll and more than 50 percent of them vote “yes,” C and P will then do a study of how much more they would have to charge their Culpeper customers to offer toll-free service to Washington numbers.
Mr. Wilkins feels certain that most 675-exchange customers are in his situation, wanting to call friends with 937 numbers, but trying to hold their phone bills down by limiting the number of those calls and trying to keep conversations short.
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