asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when work on the new automatic telephone exchange will commence in Boyle, County Roscommon, and whether this exchange will be fully automatic or a subexchange.
Written Answers. - Telephone Service.
448.
It is expected that construction of an automatic exchange building will commence at Boyle early next year and that conversion to automatic working will take place in 1982. The new exchange at Boyle will be fully automatic.
449.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs the increase in the number of subscribers' terminations at automatic exchanges in the four year period to June 1977 and in the four-year period to June 1973; the number of telephone connections, increase in trunk circuits, increase in trunk mileage, new telex lines added, new data transmissions terminals provided, telephone exchange buildings completed and postal buildings completed over the same periods.
As the reply is in the form of a tabular statement I propose with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, to circulate it with the Official Report.
Following is the statement.
|
Item |
Additional Number provided in period |
|
|
1 July 1969 to 30 June 1973 |
1 July 1973 to 30 June 1977 |
|
|
Subscriber terminations at auto exchanges |
69,950 |
177,950 |
|
Telephone Connections |
95,400 |
142,300 |
|
Trunk Circuits:Number |
5,850 |
9,400 |
|
Mileage |
270,550 |
413,500 |
|
New Telex lines |
1,086 |
1,839 |
|
Data transmission terminals (modems) |
42 |
392 |
|
Telephone exchange buildings |
103 |
189 |
|
Postal buildings |
15 |
22 |
450.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when an automatic telephone service will be provided for Newcestown, County Cork.
In the later half of 1981.
451.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he will provide a public telephone kiosk at the new housing estate at Irishtown, Dublin 4.
There is a telephone kiosk approximately 360 metres from this housing estate and the provision of an additional one in the area would not be warranted.