Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: faigin@aerospace.aero.org Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: BOCs and Regionals Message-ID: Date: 25 Aug 89 15:02:32 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA Lines: 29 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 326, message 5 of 9 >Pacific Telesis > Pacific Bell (CA) Pacific Bell most certainly does not provide service for all of California. The two other *large* companies that provide service in California are Continential Telephone (CONTEL) and Generally Terrible Equipment (oops) Grouchy Turtle Enterprises (oops) General Telephone (GTE). I should know. I've lived in CA all my life, and have never had service under PacBell. I have been *blessed*? with GTE. (Which reminds me of a story of a PacBell customer who moved to a GTE area, and then received a sympathy card from PacBell :-) ) It would be interesting to see a summary of where these companies provide service. I know that GTE provides service in Hawaii and California, and that Contel provides service in parts of CA, NV, and CO. I have another question. Telephone books provide lots of information on what it costs to call whereever. However, they do not provide information on what regional company you would need to call to provide local service. The only way I have found to do this is to see what prefixes are omitted from one book (they belong to the "other" guy). This is critial in Los Angeles, where service is divided between GTE and PacBell. Daniel -- Work :The Aerospace Corp M8/055 * POB 92957 * LA, CA 90009-2957 * 213/336-3149 Home :=> 9758 Natick Avenue * Sepulveda CA 91343 <= NEW ADDRESS * 818/892-8555 Email:faigin@aerospace.aero.org (or) Faigin@dockmaster.ncsc.mil Voicemail: 213/336-5454 Box#3149 * "Take what you like, and leave the rest"