Phone Rates
Re “Basic Phone Fees to Rise” (Sept. 16):
le Let me get this right. GTE, a corporation that netted $1.5 billion in 1993 and spent more than $1 billion just a year ago to acquire Contel Corp., which has known for more than seven years that competition in the local long-distance market was coming, now pleads it is “unduly expensive” and needs more time to institute 1-plus dialing so that other carriers may truly compete?
I find this amazing! However, even more amazing is that the PUC concurred.
MICHAEL D. MYERS
Los Alamitos
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