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From: pf@islington-terrace.csc.ti.com (Paul Fuqua)
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Subject: Re: Latest Charge by Southwestern Bell
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    Date: Sunday, February 11, 1990  9:46pm (CST)
    From: cedar!dewey at execu.uucp (Dewey Henize)
    Subject: Latest Charge by Southwestern Bell
    
    The fee appears to be $0.50 per line, I guess, since the bill is for
    eight lines and the charge is four dollars.

It's about the same in Dallas.
    
    Does anyone have any figures on how hard it really is to add 911
    service to a part of a county?  Assume the worst, that its only in the
    more remote areas, and so on.  What's the basis for a deal like this?

In this area, Tarrant County (Fort Worth) got it first, a couple of
years back (three?  four?).  They managed to get the whole county
operational at once, but the biggest obstacle was assigning street
addresses (and street names!) to upwards of 7000 households that
received mail via RFD and the like.

Dallas County isn't quite completely covered, either, but at least
they had the clumsiness to start the service on April 1 (1988 or
1989).


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