Likewise, traditional local and long-distance telephone service over the copper network is being displaced by better technology from cable and fiber.

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In turn, the utility can offer its ratepayers a package of some two dozen consumer services, including Internet access, appliance protection, satellite television, long-distance telephone service, carbon-monoxide protection and security.

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