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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 06:50:00 +0000
- From: Greg (G.T.) Stovall <gstovall@bnr.ca>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: The Worst Phone Lines in the US?
- Message-ID: <telecom12.846.1@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- In article <telecom12.837.8@eecs.nwu.edu> steve@wrq.com writes:
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- > I seem to remember a story that appeared in the TELECOM Digest several
- > years ago about the SWB-GTE situation in Texas. There was a large
- > company, Atlantic Richfield I think, that moved a large complex from
- > an area served by SWB to one served by GTE. The GTE service was so
- > inadequate that they had all of their local lines terminate in SWB
- > territory, then piped them into their office in GTE territory via
- > private microwave. GTE got upset about this and sued. The
- > small space they rented in SWB territory) was their business.
-
- Hmm. Maybe that explains the microwave array on the roof. When AR
- vacated their old facility in Richardson (consolidated into the new
- Plano facility) there were still active microwave links on the roof.
- I don't know if these were remaining local links for just that
- building or if AR still rented the roof space for SWB transmissions.
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-
- Gregory T. Stovall <gstovall@bnr.ca>
- Bell-Northern Research Richardson, Texas, USA (214) 684-7009
- My opinions are not necessarily endorsed by BNR.
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