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               The Fort Mill, Lancaster, and Home service areas are                   
          predominantly rural.  The Fort Mill and Lancaster service areas             
          are contiguous.  Fort Mill provides service in York county.                 
          Lancaster provides service in Lancaster and Chester counties.               
          Home is located in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, and provides              
          services in parts of Berkeley, Dorchester, and Orangeburg                   
          counties.                                                                   
               Rock Hill has three television cable company subsidiaries:             
          Great Falls Cablevision, Inc.; Carolina Telecom Services, Inc.;             
          and Winnsboro/Ridgeway Cablevision, Inc.  It also has three                 
          wholly owned subsidiaries (Associated Data Services, Inc.;                  
          Stenseth Directory Service, Inc.; and Associated Telecom, Inc.),            
          that provide services to the cable television and                           
          telecommunications industry.                                                
               4.   Telephone Services Provided by Rock Hill                          
               In 1949, Rock Hill converted its local service network to              
          dial service.  It installed electromechanical toll switching                
          equipment in 1968, and began offering touch tone service in 1971.           
               Rock Hill replaced all of its electromechanical switching              
          equipment with digital electronic switching equipment between               
          1981 and 1990.  After it installed digital equipment, Rock Hill             
          offered new services including call waiting, call forwarding, and           
          conference calling.  Rock Hill was converting from copper wires             
          to fiber optics technology in December 1992.                                






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