Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: doug@letni.uucp (Doug Davis) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: GTE Bashing?! ( was: BOCs and Regionals ) Message-ID: Date: 31 Aug 89 22:55:53 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: doug@letni.lawnet.com Organization: Logic Process Dallas, Texas. Lines: 44 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 340, message 9 of 10 In article Eric Schnoebelen writes: >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.. You are one extremely lucky person. Don't let them know you have a working telephone line from them, that cost extra ;-) My site 'letni' feeds news to two sites serviced by G.T.E. (Generally Too Emptyheaded). The telebit feed (Plano) on a good day will make 400 characters per second, and the normal 2400 baud connection (Lewisville) gets 140 cps after about 10-15 attempts that didn't connect due to random line noise or just generally very attuated line volume. Also a company that I consulted for who runs voice paging systems for that area ended up installing a microwave link between a site in Arlington and Lewisville just becase GTE couldn't keep the noise off the trunks... Now to page in Lewisville you call a number in Arlington and it beams your page back to your city. Too bad this isn't an option for most people. Just for the record I had a really interesting conversation with the so-called head of network engineering for GTE in the north texas area. The topic was why I never could get a good modem connection at 2400 baud. He informed me unequivocally that 300 baud half duplex was all their telephone system will handle and all that they would talk to me about. Btw, I'm looking for a house in North-Dallas right now, and the primiary requirement is the telephone company NOT be GTE, schools, shopping other-things come secondary. -- Doug Davis/1030 Pleasant Valley Lane/Arlington/Texas/76015/817-467-3740 {sys1.tandy.com, motown!sys1, uiucuxc!sys1 lawnet, attctc, texbell} letni!doug "GTE sucks... Then they charge you for the privledge."