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Re: GTE and Verizon; SBC and AT&T, in Southern California

Steve Sobol (sjsobol@JustThe.net)
Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:33:33 -0700

Anthony Bellanga wrote:

>> I thought Southern Cal was GTE.

> Southern California, specifically the Los Angeles extended metro area,
> has been a *HODGE PODGE* of General Telephone (or their predecessors)
> and Pacific Telephone going back to the 1920s. The GTE areas were the
> early dial independent telcos that had originally come about prior to
> the 1920s as competitors to Pacific Tel (Bell).

> There was also some Continental Telephone in the mix, mostly to the
> east of the basic L.A. Metro Area, but Contel was taken over by GTE in
> the early 1990s.

Yup. Out here northeast of LA too, in the Victor Valley. This was
ConTel country. Now the old ConTel business office is a Verizon call
center. They're always hiring 411 operators up here.

90 miles west, in the Antelope Valley on the L.A. County side of the
High Desert, it's all PacBell/SBC/at&t.

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