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bCL records indicate that, among the Verizon exchanges 987 and 937 and Embarq's 675 exchange, there only have been three consumer complaints logged so far in 2009. In 2008, there were eight. In 2007, the year that Verizon replaced all the copper-wire cable with fiber-optic lines along Route 231, there were 12 complaints.

Verizon spokesman Harry J. Mitchell, meanwhile, said the company’s repair workforce, based in Culpeper, has not declined in the past 24 months, remaining steady at 13 technicians - this despite losses of between 10 and 20 percent of the company’s overall customer base m Northern Virginia, Mitchell said, to competing wireless, cable and other carriers.

The obvious effects of declining revenue for wired carriers is

78.6%