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Verizon
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cases, within 24 hours:
“Out-of-service trouble reports should generally be cleared within 24 hours,” reads the SCO’s Standards of Service, published on the commission’s Web site.
“The standard for satisfactory performance shall be that, without exception other than as permitted in this chapter, no less than 80 percent of out-ofservice trouble reports are cleared within 24 hours, and that, without exception other than as permitted in this chapter, no less than 95 percent are cleared within 48 hours, per calendar month, excluding Sundays and ... holidays.”
According to the county’s emergency services department, there are just over 5,000 active land-line phones in the county; more than 3,000 are Verizon numbers. The remainder maintained by Embarq, formerly Sprint, is primarily in and around the northern part of the county - in Washington, Flint Hill and Chester Gap.
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