Re: GTE made me an unhapy customer in L.A.

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From: D. Stussy
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 00:00

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Well, you should have known.

Do you know why GTE no longer has the slogan "The Power is ON."???

It's because everyone who has GTE service changed it to:

"Of course we know the power is on.  Can you hear the white noise?"

On Sat, 29 May 1999, The Pervert wrote:
> Jeffrey Hurwit wrote:
> >     Good for you, go get 'em.  But why is this in la.general?  I thought
> >     LA County was served mainly by Pac Bell and GTE.  Never heard of US
> >     West around here.
> 
> I live in Los Angeles and used to have GTE local phone service.  It
> sucked big time!  I had two lines and their long distance "savings
> package."  Amazingly, my bill skyrocketed.  Took me months to get it
> straightened out.
> 
> Now I'm with Media One (yeah, the cable television people) for local
> service.  
> 
> Screw GTE !

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