Verizon Deploys New Switch Technology To Better Serve Southern Chester County Customers

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KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. - Verizon Communications is investing more than $5 million to modernize the local telecommunications network and provide additional telephone lines to its customers in the Kennett Square area of Chester County.

Verizon is expanding the capacity of its digital switches, state-of-the-art computers that route calls to their destinations in the Kennett Square area. This advanced technology will enable future growth and provides additional capacity and reliability in the Verizon network.

Verizon's Kennett Square telephone office serves more than 60,000 phone lines, including the communities of Kemblesville, Avondale, West Grove and Oxford. The switch upgrade will add the capacity for about 10,000 more phone lines to the capacity of the Kennett Square office. The company expects to complete construction in a couple of weeks.

"This project is the latest evidence that Verizon is meeting its commitment to deliver a state-of-the-art telecommunications network throughout Pennsylvania," said Daniel J. Whelan, president of Verizon Pennsylvania. "We continue to upgrade our infrastructure to provide rural and urban customers with high-speed access to the Internet, work-at-home capabilities, as well as a host of other innovative advanced services."

Whelan said Verizon has made major strides in deploying advanced technology in its network:

  • Investment in Verizon Pennsylvania's (formerly Bell Atlantic-Pennsylvania) network will reach nearly $1 billion this year, totaling about $3 billion in the past three years.

  • Fiber miles in the Verizon Pennsylvania network increased from 911,308 in 1999 to 997,442 in 2000.

  • Verizon Pennsylvania fulfilled its commitment to the state Public Utility Commission to convert all of its 218 switching offices to digital technology by the end of last year.

"Verizon is keeping its promises to Pennsylvania," Whelan said. "We are building and enhancing a public telecommunications network in Pennsylvania that is the finest in the world and is a vital part of the commonwealth's economic infrastructure."

In addition to deploying the latest technology, Verizon has spent tens of millions of dollars to open Pennsylvania's local telephone market to competition.

"We have irreversibly opened our markets to competition," Whelan said. "We can't force the long-distance giants or anyone else to compete here, but anyone who genuinely wants to enter our markets can do so."

Verizon Communications

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