Donegal telephone service and STD extension
The Minister says improvements are under way, including automatic working at Letterkenny and new trunk links, which should considerably improve Donegal’s service by year’s end.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he is aware of the dire necessity to improve the telephone service to an Industrial Estate in Donegal (details supplied) and if he is in a position to state when the STD system will be extended to serve west Donegal.
Comment on this
, (Dublin South-Central): The need to improve the telephone service in County Donegal, including service at the industrial estate referred to, is already fully recognised, and everything practicable is being done to expedite completion of improvement works at present in progress or planned. There should be a considerable improvement in the service in County Donegal generally by the end of this year when Letterkenny exchange has been converted to automatic working and when major new trunk links between Dublin and Sligo and between Sligo and Letterkenny have been brought into service.
It is expected that automatic working (including STD) will be extended to most of west Donegal in 1981/1982.
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