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- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 13:45:43 GMT
- From: cos!bob1@uunet.UU.NET (Bob Blackshaw)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Telephone Pioneers Accepting New Members
- Message-ID: <telecom12.703.3@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Corporation for Open Systems
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- This is an enquiry that I received following my post on Pioneer auto
- tags. A young man contacted me regarding the chance for people in
- telecom related companies for joining the Telephone Pioneers. It
- sounded reasonable that since the divestiture that membership should
- be opened up somewhat.
-
- I am a life member through 33 years service with Bell Canada, but am
- not active here in the U.S. In any case, I wrote to the President of
- the Pioneers and posed that young man's question.
-
- The answer is that the Pioneers are open to any company whose telecom
- business is "at least 50% of their revenues are derived from two-way
- switched telecommunications service." The company must be prepared to
- provide some financial support, manpower support, floor space,
- computer support, etc.
-
- In 1988 they changed the Pioneer constitution to allow employees
- actively involved in Pioneering to be considered for regular
- membership. He did not state which employees, but I guess this means
- employees of companies supporting the Pioneer movement. Oh yes, the
- service requirement was reduced from 21 to 15 years in 1989.
-
- The COO of TPA is:
- William M. Germain, Jr.
- P.O.Box 13888
- Denver, CO 80201-3888
-
-
- Bob Blackshaw [bob1@cos.com]
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