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From: Jon Baker <asuvax!gtephx!mothra!bakerj@ncar.ucar.edu>
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Subject: Re: GTE/Contel Merger Questions
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In article <9646@accuvax.nwu.edu>, rv01@gte.com (Robert Virzi) writes:

> What sort of network does Contel have?  I know they don't use the
> GTD-5 because (rumor has it) we (GTE) have only sold one outside the
> corporation to Ameritech.  Are they largely digital or X-bar or worse?

Numerous GTD-5's have been sold to independents across the country.  I
can't find the exact numbers right now, but it's probably on the order
of several hundred thousand lines.  Don't know if Contel was one of
them.