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A $17.3 million con-
struction and service
improvements program is
currently underway by
Commonwealth Telephone
Company and its two
subsidiaries, Leesport
Telephone Company and
Lewisberry Telephone
Company, according to the
utility’s president, William
J. Umphred.
Serving approximately
127,000 customers,
Commonwealth and its two
subsidiaries cover a 4,900
square mile, 19 county area
of Eastern Pennsylvania.
Gommoenweslts
Telephone Company is the
third largest independent
telephone company in
Pennsylvania and the ninth
largest in the United
States. The company has
been experiencing . sub-
stantial growth in the last
decade in the suburban and
rural areas of Eastern
Pennsylvania which it
serves.
During 1979 the company
will install 24 digital
remote switching units
throughout its service
area, replace two elec-
tromechnaical switching
systems located
Tunkhannock and
Elizabethville, replace
long distance switchng
dquipment in Wellsboro
and construct 605 miles of
new cable.
This year’s highlight will -
be the placement of a fiber
optic system between
Mansfield and Wellsboro--
one of the first of its kind in
the United States. Fiber
optics is the science by
which light beams are
guided in a “glass wire.”
The optical fibers are made
of ultra-pure glass and
in
rapidly. .pulsing
laser--generated light
waves.
When fully operational
in mid-1979, this field ap-
plication of fiber optic
technology will carry 672
simultaneous converstions
over two glass fibers the
size of a human hair.
“Fiber optic technology
is expected to facilitate the
company’s entry into the
provision of broad band
services including cable
television, electronic mail
and shopping and bankng
explained.
This year’s program
comes on the heels of
another successful
year.1978. The past year’s
telephone gain represented
9,849 new phones placed,
+. into service. The com-
pany’s Automatic
Number, Identification
program, which provides
positive automatic id-
dentification of customer
billing numbers as long
distance calls are dialed,
All Commonwealth,
Leesport and Lewisberry
customers can now take
advantage of the improved
efficiency offered by
Automatic Number
Identification.
During 1978 Com-
monwealth completely
eliminated multi-party
(more than four customers
on a single line) service.
Also 81.5 percent of
customers now have in-
dividual line service.
John Navich, Central
Division Manager, further
elaborated that Com-
monwealth plans to spend
$,619,000 for service im-
provements and | new
construction in the Dallas
area of the company.
Included in this amount
is $462,000 for new in-
stallation, special services,
and private branch ex-
change service for business
customers: $8,000 for
improved long distance
transmission facilities;
$589,000 for improved local
facilities; $90,000 for
central office switching
equipment; $59,000 for land
and buildings; $264,000 for
vehicles; $60,000 for cen-
tral office test equipment;
$5,000 for toosl; $2,00 for
mobile radio; $20,000 for
for the electronic main-
tenance center.
Specific projects in the
Dallas area include: the
installation of a remote
switching unit at
Ceasetown; cable relief for
Ceasetown, Vernon and
Harveys Lake; line ad-
ditions for Noxen and in-
stallation for Local
Automatic Message Ac-
counting equipment and
custom calling features for
Harveys Lake.
When the new equipment
becomes operational later
in the year, harveys Lake
customers will have the
option of electing call
waiting, call forwarding,
three way calling or speed
calling.
Remote switching units
provide customers with
improved grades of ser-
vicerd and better tran-
for costly outside cable
construction. . Com-
monwealth can then pass
these cost efficiencies on to
customers by maintaining
existing local service rates.
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of child welfare
The question of whether or not there
will be an investigation of the local
child welfare agency is apparently
still open.
" Monday Luzerne County District
Attorney Chester Muroski refused
comment on the subject, saying that
he was under a court order to refrain
from discussing the matter.
____ There had. -been-rumors that "the
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