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Only ILECs and one competitor in each area would be eligible for support and recipients would be required to commit to making broadband available to at least 85% of customers in each wire center.

When the process is complete, all of AT&T Ohios 252 wire centers will be DSL-ready.

yesterday, affected a dozen wire centers in the Central Massachusetts area, which includes Worcester, Marlboro and Fitchburg, said Verizon spokesman Rick Colon.

is utilizing ADC's Next Generation Frame (NGF) to deploy fiber successfully to customers in its central office and wire centers in Northeast Alabama.

All Bellingham customers will receive the same programming availability and cable access channels regardless of which wire center services their end of town.

[TABLE OMITTED] XO Communications also supplied data with respect to the number of wire centers in each MSA in which there are no CLEC Lit Commercial Buildings.

According to GeoResults, the overall data for each of the six metropolitan statistical areas ("MSAs") demonstrate that extremely few buildings are served by competitors over Type I facilities: [TABLE OMITTED] XO's Heather Gold added, "The paucity of competitive loop facilities to commercial buildings is much the same when viewed at the individual wire center level: Competitors have only the slightest toe-hold in the business market.

Baker began working with PB/NB in the Fall of 2000, and under various work orders, Baker's services have grown to include the preparation of digital landbase data for 330 wire centers in the Pacific Bell Telephone Company's franchise territories.