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Posted: 10:32 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013
By The Associated Press
SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa. —
Ogle Township in Somerset County is getting high-speed Internet coverage and hopes soon to eradicate a cellphone "dead zone," too.
Officials in Ogle Township told the Somerset Daily American that Verizon required at least 40 of the township's 500 residents to purchase at least a year's worth of high-speed Web service before it would be installed.
Township supervisors' chairman Harvey Weyandt said his house just got hooked up for the service and says Verizon has also agreed to build two cellphone towers so a 16-mile stretch of Route 56 between nearby Windber and Pleasantville in neighboring Bedford County will no longer be a "dead zone."
The township didn't have to pay for the service which, Weyandt said, was achieved by "good old-fashioned squawking."
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