Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Calls from Egypt Message-ID: Date: 17 Nov 89 03:35:30 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 16 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 516, message 9 of 11 In article , levitt@zorro9.fidonet. org (Ken Levitt) writes: > [horror stories of the Egyptian telephone system] > In view of all this, I can't understand why the GTE customers in CA > are complaining. It appears that things in CA are not as bad as they > could be. 8-) Yes, I'm sure that GTE of California would love to be compared to Egypt, or maybe the USSR, or even Mexico. But unfortunately, they are playing ball in a different stadium. And as things stand, they can't hold a candle to Pac*Bell (with whom they must be compared), the most backward and antiquated RBOC in the nation. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !