The results of Qwest’s two-year, seven-figure effort to improve p...
The results of Qwest’s two-year, seven-figure effort to improve phone service in remote, sparsely populated Cherry County, Neb., will be taken up at a town-hall meeting Wednesday at the library in Valentine. Public Service Commissioner Jerry Vap called the…
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session to get residents’ comments on the quality of their phone service after the extensive upgrade. A 2006 commission order required fixes including widespread cable testing and replacement. Problems cropped up when Qwest installed booster units along existing lines. The lines, many decades old, had been carrying a 4w load. The boosters, rated at 40w, knocked out service across the enormous county, Vap said. After the work, “the service in Cherry County is great, compared to the rest of Nebraska and, in fact, to all of our 14-state region,” a Qwest representative said. He estimated that Qwest spent “a couple of million” dollars of its own money plus $1-2 million from the Universal Service Fund, on the project.