The Followup File...

Remember last January when representatives of Charter Cable Co. said they were going to sell out to Allegiance Cable of Tyler, TX and therefore could not provide service to Patricia Island and other parts of Grove currently unserved by cable? The Grove City Council even approved the sale.
Well, the sale, planned for May, never happened.
Charter is still serving Grove and there is still a contract for purchase by Allegiance, although the financing plan has been changed two or three times, according to a Charter official.
"Maybe by the end of the year," he said. He added that the dynamics keep changing, such as the sale by Cox Cable of many of its small town systems across the country, including many in Oklahoma.
In the meantime, residents of Patricia Island are hanging on to their string and tin cans for the latest in communiciations technology.
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