MCMAHON%GRIN1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (McMahon,Brian D) (08/13/90)
In TELECOM Digest V10 #562, our Moderator writes: >[Moderator's Note: Based on all the complaints we get here about GTE, >I'm beginning to think divine intervention is the only thing which >might help improve their service. PT] Jeez, am I the only one who doesn't think GTE is, if not the Beast in person, at least a direct representative of all that is evil? :-) We're right smack dab in the middle of GTE-land, and I don't really see them as being all THAT much worse than anything else I've used. For my purposes (POTS, dial-in to the college, calls to Telenet in Des Moines [at the 55-mile distance rate! Ack!]), they seem to do the job. Then again, they've been taking it in the shorts over their proposed rate hike here. (Did I say "hike"? "Forced march" is more like it.) But being taken to the cleaners by the phone company is hardly a novel idea, and that's what we have PUCs for. But the phones do work. Heck, even the critter the college has installed (Omni S/III or something similar) seems to work all right, at least as far as I can tell from my desk. Maybe having GTE operations in town makes a difference. Grinnell until recently was the HQ for their Midwest operations, but I've lost track of what the heck they are these days. My monthly check now goes to GTE *North* (used to be GTE Midwest right here in town) in Indianapolis (which is to the *East* :->). That might matter -- if I can't get the attention of their repair service, I can always ram one of their vans... :-) :-) I hate disclaimers, but since this affects town-gown relations . . . The above is my personal opinion. It has nothing to do with Grinnell College, GCCS, the Board of Trustees, or the price of tea in China. Brian McMahon <MCMAHON@GRIN1.BITNET> Grinnell College Computer Services Grinnell, Iowa 50112 (515) 269-4901