Unnamed Administration sources reported that Tony Mumm said:
If you are talking about ILECs that include smaller independent telephone companies, I believe Minnesota and Iowa have the highest count. Iowa has around 140 total ILEC companies...
To be expected. To most folks "REA" meant electricity. But in reality it meant 100's of small co-op telcos as well, with borrowing power that a telco startup needed. While over the years many have sold out to GTE or Citizens, there are lots left. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433