Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: texbell!egsner!eric@cs.utexas.edu (Eric Schnoebelen) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: GTE Bashing?! ( was: BOCs and Regionals ) Message-ID: Date: 30 Aug 89 23:47:09 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Eric Schnoebelen Organization: Central Iowa (Model) Railroad, Lewisville, Tx. Lines: 45 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 335, message 2 of 6 In article pf@ti-csl.csc.ti.com (Paul Fuqua) writes: -> From: John Higdon -> Subject: Re: BOCs and Regionals - -> Is it any wonder that there are people who literally red-line areas of -> the state and refuse to consider living in any area served by GTE? - -I feel the same way. Many of the Dallas suburbs are "served" by GTE. I can -always tell whether my sister is calling from her home in Grapevine (GTE) or -work in Arlington (SWB) -- I can barely hear her when she calls from home. I live in one of the Dallas suburbs ( Lewisville ) served by GTE.. I have never had any problem with them, and certainly not recently.. Case in point, one afternoon, my modem decided it would be a grand time to take its line off hook, and then die in that state.. I called GTE about my line being busied out, assuming that it was a CO problem ( since I *never* have problems with my equipment.. :-) at about 5:30p, and by the time I discovered the problem *was* my equipment, I had been called back by a tech at GTE saying that they could find no problem at the CO, and if I would carefully check all of my equipment.. I ( somewhat sheepishly ) told her that I had just discovered the problem, and that it had been corrected.. Needless to say, I was very satisfied with the service, and said so on the little card that GTE sends out after any service call.. ( nice touch, GTE ) GTE has seemed far more responsive to my requests here in Lewisville, than Northwestern Bell ever did in Ames, Iowa.. For that matter, GTE in Nevada, Iowa was more responsive than Northwestern Bell.. I can't make any comparisons with Southwestern Bell, having never been served by them in Dallas.. I guess I don't understand all the GTE bashing, just like I don't understand all the Sprint bashing.. ( Sprint is my long distance carrier.. No problems in recent memory.. ) Just my two cents worth.. -- Eric Schnoebelen egsner!eric@texbell.swbt.com now playing: eric@egsner.cirr.com