16 Feb
2001
16 Feb
'01
12:24 p.m.
Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com> wrote:
Also sprach Richard Welty
it takes a very long time for an old ILEC to change, and i'd expect that tens or hundreds of mergers can take place without changing the behavior of the old line staff out in the field much at all.
I would somewhat contradict that. It hasn't taken GTE long at all to adopt Bell Atlantic's anti-competitive ways with regard to provisioning DSL.
i was thinking in terms of changing for the better. there is no question in my mind that the old NYNEX territory still sucks as much as it ever did, and the old Bell-Atlantic certainly deteriorated after the merger. richard