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Mills resident.

She was among those whose persistent complaints - to Verizon, the SCC, state-elected officials and others - resulted in Verizon's decision to replace aged and damaged copper-wire cabling along F T. Valley Road in the summer of 2007.

Christie and others also pressed the fact that businesses affected by the sporadic but enduring 2007 outages, including Conyers House Bed & Breakfast and Sharp Rock' Vineyard, essentially were unable to conduct business.

The SCC, meanwhile, which oversees local-exchange providers in Virginia, has rules that require those providers to restore outages, in most

See VERIZON, Page A7

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