Say goodbye to Speakeasy

[Alex Pennace]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 08:07:37AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> The bottom line on this is that we will need to wait and see how things 
> start to fall out. As I mentioned, the states and local communities have 
> some jurisdiction over the carriers. This is one reason why each community 
> has its own telephone CO. 

Not every community has their own telephone central office. Off the
top of my head, the following Massachusetts towns do not have their
own COs:

Dudley
East Brookfield
Lancaster
New Braintree
Paxton
Royalston
Southboro
Sutton
West Brookfield

Local involvement in telephone company operations is next to nothing.