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N 191 Commission' s policies and orders instill the responsibility. This docket has covered a lot of issues, but issues that are related, related to the public's need to benefit from introduction of modern network technology at the class 4 office and below. We, therefore, propose the following six positions to the Utilities Commission: I. We reiterate all of our previous requests of the Commission. II. We note that General Telephone has responded only as a contractor between Centel and AT&T. We request responses to our previous questions from General Telephone as a Local Exchange Company providing service to subscribers in Eastern Orange County and Durham County who also experienced this failure. III. Since the question of excessive costs of implementing modern network technology have been repeatedly raised, and in consideration of AT&T's offer to participate in discussions concerning the economic and practical feasibility of a direct connection, we ask the Commission to order AT&T and Centel, and AT&T and General to develop and to submit for review practical plans and budgets for implementing fault-tolerant and self-healing networks through their class 5 office levels. IV. Noting that AT&T, in its filing of August 29, 1986, said it would share results of a study on facility diversity between Durham and Greensboro, and that it was forming a Quality Assurance Task Force, we request the Commission to order AT&T to submit a progress report to us on each of those points. V. We ask that the docket be kept open to review the results of these requests and the monitoring as ordered by the Commission. VI . As Shirley Marshall is now the Chair of the Orange County Board of Commissioners, we ask that the Commission replace Mr. Willhoit 's name on this docket with that of Ms. Marshall . This the 6th day of April, 1987. Respectfully submitted, Shirley Marshall Chair, Orange County Board of Commissioners. 3