Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: In Defense of GTE and their Apparatus Message-ID: Date: 16 Sep 89 22:14:36 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 30 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 381, message 2 of 2 In article , goldstein@delni.enet.dec.com writes: > The California PUC historically has given GTE (and the old PacTel) > very low ROI, often a couple of percentage points or more below > everybody else. When most states were allowing 13% and California was > allowing 10%, which state would YOU invest in? To make matters worse, > C-PUC would penalize GTE for its poor performance by lowering its ROI > even more. And what made things REALLY worse was that just when GTE would find itself in a position of lowering its costs (by installing new CO equipment) it screwed itself by not reducing the bloated work force that was previously required to maintain the old steppers. It was not uncommon to find a GTE CO staff exactly the same size with GTD5 or 1AESS that it had before the cut. > AT&T was too proud of its "Bell System" reputation to let PacTel go > down the tubes, so they dumped money into CA even with a cruddy rate > of return. But GTE had other fish to fry with its cash, so they gave > the state pretty much what it paid for. Even so, PacTel was indeed the poor stepchild of AT&T. I remember C&P and Illinois and Southern Bell all having neat stuff while PacTel reps didn't even know what I was talking about. Back in the 70s, I was working with a radio station in a transmitter move in the Jacksonville, FL, area. We needed a pair of 15K equalized lines in a hurry and Southern Bell had them up in twenty-four hours. You were lucky to ever get them with PacTel, and have them right. -- John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !