Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!gryphon!vector!telecom-gateway From: dgc@math.ucla.edu Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: GTE Bashing Message-ID: Date: 8 Sep 89 20:27:32 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 21 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 361, message 4 of 9 I've been a GTE user in a suburban area northwest of Santa Monica for 23 years. 23 years ago the service was TERRIBLE. In the last 6 or 8 years, however, their service has been excellent and the line quality is good. However, this improvement has not extended to the GTE business office, where the same arrogant, customer-be-damned attitude remains. They recently enabled "900" service without providing for blocking it, even to those who already had "976" service blocked. Of course, since the telcos control the assignment of prefixes and area codes, etc., "900" service is really "976" service. dgc David G. Cantor Department of Mathematics University of California at Los Angeles Internet: dgc@math.ucla.edu UUCP: ...!{randvax, sdcrdcf, ucbvax}!ucla-cs!dgc