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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 11:13:55 -0500
- From: glaser@dsmail.lkg.dec.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: The Worst Phone Lines in the US?
- Message-ID: <telecom12.846.2@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 846, Message 2 of 13
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- stevef@wrq.com (Steve Forrette) described a story with Atlantic
- Ritchfield buying Southwestern Bell (SWB) lines and using private
- microwave to send the over to GTE territory.
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- I heard that Burroughs (now Unisys) did the same trick in the LA area
- back in the 60s for their Pasadena CA plant.
-
- On a different, but related front ...
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- In the early 70s, SWB in Houston realized that they had a major mess
- in their cable plant. They hired phone workers from lots of other
- Bell companies for a major "document and rewire the city" effort. For
- about a year it was not unusual to see phone trucks all over town with
- Mountain Bell / Pacific Bell / Southern Bell / ... logos on them. A
- college friend that worked for SWB during the summers told me the
- story.
-
- Maybe they just didn't "do" Dallas? :-)
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-
- Steveg
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: Is that what they meant when they made the movie
- "DEBBIE Does Dallas"? DEBBIE = Decrepit, Eroded Baby Bell, Inc. Etc.
- I wish 'they' would do Chicago also. It is a mess here too. :) PAT]
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