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optic cable. During 1987 through 1989, NITCO was installing
fiber optic cable to connect its five exchanges. Most of this
work to connect its exchanges was completed in 1987 and 1988. In
1989, NITCO installed fiber optic cable to a point in its service
area where it located a switching device to handle calls to homes
using traditional copper cables. Since 1990, NITCO has installed
fiber optic cables in a few new subdivision areas to service
homes in the subdivisions that had copper cables. In addition to
the fiber optic cable's better performance and reliability and
its potential future capacity for offering other new or enhanced
services that might become available, the fiber optic cable was
cheaper to install in these subdivision areas because of its
smaller size.
E. NITCO's Billing and Collections Work
Prior to 1986, in addition to billing and collecting
payments for its own local telephone services, NITCO billed and
collected payments for long-distance calls from customers in its
service area who utilized AT&T's long-distance telephone
services. With respect to the long-distance payments it
collected on behalf of AT&T, NITCO subtracted the access charges
due to it, as well as an administrative and collection fee, and
then was required to remit the balance of the long-distance
payments to AT&T.
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