Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: GTE/Contel Merger Message-ID: <9709@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 14 Jul 90 06:22:59 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 25 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 482, Message 7 of 11 I have communicated with a friend who lives near Victorville and has a number of phone lines from Contel. He has repeatedly said that he would never live in an area served by GTE, so I was most interested in his reaction to the merger. Half jokingly, he said that his house might just go up for sale. Seriously, he is going to carefully document the detioration of service should the merger go through. As well as technical considerations, he will be watching for the change in attitude among the personel from the business office to the plant and repair people. This will be a rare opportunity to catalog the progression of events as a "lean and mean" progressive company is swallowed up by a bloated, lethargic, non-innovative corporate behemoth. Public relations statements notwithstanding, Contel and GTE couldn't be more different. In every single area, they are complete opposites. For GTE to flatter itself in making a comparison between the two companies should be highly amusing to those who really know. This is going to be good. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !