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In article <8fn2ae$5hv$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  purusha@my-deja.com wrote:
> Does anyone know where to get a listing of telephone companies
offering
> local services in California? (Excluding PacBell.) Thanks in advance.

The only one I know of is Cox cable digital phone service in some areas.

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purusha@my-deja.com wrote the quoted material below:
" Does anyone know where to get a listing of telephone companies offering
" local services in California? (Excluding PacBell.) Thanks in advance.

Considering that the state PUC licenses telephone companies in California,
they would have a list.  There was a consolidation about 15 years ago, but
there are still quite a few indies out there in the small towns.  


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In ca.general David Kaye <dk@removethis.area.com> wrote:
: purusha@my-deja.com wrote the quoted material below:
: " Does anyone know where to get a listing of telephone companies offering
: " local services in California? (Excluding PacBell.) Thanks in advance.

: Considering that the state PUC licenses telephone companies in California,
: they would have a list.  There was a consolidation about 15 years ago, but
: there are still quite a few indies out there in the small towns.  

    There is also, of course, GTE in areas not served by Pac Bell,
such as Los Gatos and areas of West Los Angeles.  If you think Pac
Bell is bad...

Merlin Dorfman wrote the quoted material below:

"     There is also, of course, GTE in areas not served by Pac Bell,
" such as Los Gatos and areas of West Los Angeles.  If you think Pac
" Bell is bad...

My classic story was of a phone call I made from a GTE phone booth in
Santa Barbara to a friend in Santa Monica (also GTE territory).  The phone
booth had touch-tone, as is required by the state PUC.  After I dialed,
the button tones were translated into fast dial pulses.  

There was a pause as GTE connected to the long distance network, and then
I heard the phone number translated *back* into touch tones for the LD
network to use.

Then there was a pause of about 10 seconds while the LD network tried to
connect back to GTE at the other side.  Finally, the touch tones were
convered *back* again to pulses to be handled by GTE's ancient switching
system.  (Ancient at the time anyhow.)  

Finally, after about 25 seconds of elapsed time, my friend's phone
rang.  He picked it up and said hello.  And said hello again.  He couldn't
hear me.  He hung up.

I then went through exactly the same calling process again.

Once again, after another lengthy connect time, my friend answered.  We
talked.  Each of us could hear the other clearly.  Great!  I was in the
middle of getting directions to his house when the line went dead.  

In all fairness, though, GTE's service has improved a *lot* in recent
years.  


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