Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: optilink!cramer@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: GTE Bashing Message-ID: Date: 11 Sep 89 16:33:52 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA Lines: 27 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 367, message 2 of 4 In article , myerston@cts.sri.com writes: # At least #some< of GTE's service problems are the result of # equipment provided (foisted?) by the infamous Automatic Electric and # its successors. # When I worked at Western Electric it seemed like the most # satisfying jobs were those where we replaced AE equipment with ESS # machines (1A ESS at that time) for GTE of California. We did several # in Southern California (Long Beach, LA-Stadium) and the immediate # improvements brought in commendations, editorials etc. By contrast # PacBell jobs (usually X-Bar replacements) went largely unnoticed. As a former victim of Genital Telephone (everytime you got near it, you got screwed) service, I would have to agree. The old (213) 392 exchange in Santa Monica was especially amazing. A friend of mine used to kid that he could go get coffee in the interval between taking the phone off hook, and getting dial tone. When Genital Telephone finally put me up on an ESS in the mid-1970s, it was a revelation! Phone calls that ALWAYS completed, and damn quick! -- Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer "No man is an island" is the beginning of the end of personal freedom. Disclaimer? You must be kidding! No company would hold opinions like mine!