Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!bionet!ames!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: GTE Bashing?! ( was: BOCs and Regionals ) Message-ID: Date: 7 Sep 89 19:04:41 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 32 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 357, message 6 of 12 In article , klb@lzaz.att.com (K.BLATTER) writes: > I had heard that GTE was abandoning their Central Office Switch > manufacturing and would be replacing their CO equipment with AT&T > 5ESS's. I can't find the source, so I guess that's what makes it a > rumor. I have heard that rumor, also. Specifically, they are supposedly dumping the GTD5 (you know, the world's most modern switching equipment). In October, GTE Los Gatos is retiring the last of their EAX. Let's see what they put in. Speaking of rumors, a few years ago there was a major rumor (even saw light of day in the newspaper) that Pac*Bell was buying out GTE's Los Gatos operations. You should have seen the smiling faces in Los Gatos, not the least of which belonged to members of the Town Council. To my knowledge, the Los Gatos Town Council is the only governing body to have passed a resolution declaring that they wished they had a different telephone company serving their town! Now that's not a rumor; that really happened! You see, when the EAX crashed for two days, it put their fire and police out of business, since both are "served" out of that office. Glossary term for the day: preventative maintenance (GTE); work performed on a functioning system to prevent it from functioning further. -- John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !