
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, March 17, 1990                   TAG: 9003172190
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: METRO 
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LAKE AREA PHONE MEETING SET

A public meeting will be held Tuesday night at 7:30 at Moneta Elementary School to give residents of the 297 phone exchange a chance to hear a plan for cheaper rates on calls to Roanoke.

Don Reid, C&P Telephone manager, said extended area calling would mean that residents of the Stone Mountain (297) exchange in the Smith Mountain Lake area could call Roanoke numbers at 20 percent of the rate they now pay. There would be an additional monthly charge for the service, but Reid said people who make more than a couple of calls to Roanoke a month would save on their bill.

There are about 4,000 C&P customers in the lake area, which also is served by Centel Telephone Co. and Peoples Mutual.

If 297 exchange residents get the service, Roanoke phone customers would enjoy the same reduced calling rates with no additional monthly charge.

To implement the service, ballots would be mailed to all Stone Mountain customers and approval would have to be by a majority. The proposal then would go to the State Corporation Commission for approval.

Reid said the earliest that the service could be offered would be late fall or early winter.

Buchanan customers have a similar service to Roanoke. - Staff report

by CNB