Blacksburg (POP) - BLBGVA01 Updated: 05:01PM EST 11/10/2004 Operating Company: AT&T Corp. Former Operating Company(s): N/A Operating Company Number: N/A Office Name: Blacksburg (POP) Location: 1309 S. Main St. Blacksburg, Montgomery Co., VA Colocated Carrier(s): Sprint Spectrum, L.P. - VA (8571) Virginia PCS Alliance, L.C. (6822)

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Probably a post-divestiture access POP for the town of Blacksburg, probably built due to potential revenue from providing services to Virginia Tech. Many years ago this site served as a backhaul point for Sprint PCS and CFW Intelos. Sprint PCS is actually the samething as CFW Intelos (they run network Sprint PCS users use on behalf of offical Sprint PCS affiliate Horizon PCS). However, those exchanges have now been reassigned to the CFW Intelos Waynesboro MTSO proper. They remain here for historical reasons but do not reflect current regulatory filings!

Oddly there is a small CFW Telephone building behind the POP. This is probably around to provide interconnection to AT&T's network for CFW Telephone's Alleghany Counties and Covington offices. Why they wouldn't run fiber into Sprint's Lexington CO (a closer AT&T POP) is unknown. Another odd thing, on 12/15/2005 the CFW building was being served by a Bell Atlantic tech!