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Show Continental Telephone Lists Activities During the Year Continental Telephone of Utah has made many central office switching and outsidc plant facility additions and replacements in its Moab District during he past few years, continually improving existing and providing new services to telephone users, according to Emmett Mays, District Service Manager. Mays said telephone usage in the district, as throughout the entire state, has continually continual-ly been increasing. Telephone customers in Utah, according to the Bell System, place more calls per individual than do customers in nearly any other In making the plant addi- state. This increased usage tions. Mays said Continental has made it necessary for the Telephone of Utah always company lo add microwave, considers the environmental cable, and electronic carrier to effect, and whenever possible, provide the additional lines the new outside plant facilities and imerexchange trunks nec- installed are underground essary to handle the continual cable and microwave, elimina- growth in telephone usage. ting poles and aerial wire and cable. Since January, 122 new business telephones and 246 new residence telephones have been installed in the district, which also required central office switching and outside plant facility additions. The Moab District 'presently has 2649 business and 3868 residence telephone, a total of 6517. This is an increase of 368 since January 1975 and 706 since January 1974. Mays said that since January 1974, the company has had to finance expenditures exceeding exceed-ing SI, 365, 000 to make these necessary equipment and facility fa-cility additions to meet the increased telephone usage and new customer requirements during that time and is planning to spend another $498,000 in 1976 to meet that years projected new growth and to further improve telephone tele-phone service. A recent major service improvement addition improving improv-ing service to all customers was the installation of Direct Distance Dial equipment at a cost of more than $350,000, which makes it possible for all Moab District customers to call virtually all other telephone tele-phone customers in the United States, Canada, Hawaii, and many foreign countries without with-out the assistance of an operator, said Mays. In addition, the company has installed microwave facilities to nearly all exchanges which replace pole lines, eliminate visual pollution, and increases circuit capacity; central office additions which add new lines, connector numbers, and trunk equipment, expanding the capacity of the exchanges; and electronic carrier to extend circuits into the homes of new customers and to upgrade party-line customers. Cable additions have been made in j all exchange areas lo also J provide new customer lines, i upgrade party-line customers, j, and extend lines to previously jj unserved areas. jj Continental Telephone of Utah serves many remote I distant areas throughout its i service area such as the y recently established Lake Pow- 1 ell and Mexican Hat exchang- es, said Mr. Mays. The Lake Powell exchange handles com- J munication requirements for j as many as 30,000 vacationers J on the busy holiday weekends. J In addition, the company jj serves a number of remote 4 mines and locations that are I many miles from any land line r facilities by installing fixed mobile telephone service. ? Mr. Mays said Continental ' Telephone of Utah is pledged to a continuing program 0f ' "Building Solid Growth Through Better Service" to its , I customers and users. |