GTE to acquire BBN

Wed May 7 19:15:44 UTC 1997

richard welty writes:
> Charles Sprickman wrote:
> > You sir, have not dealt with NYNEX.  They are not only stupid, but
> > extremely rude.  Where else do you have to beg for dialtone?  How many MFS
> > T1 lines can be *whoops* installed wrong the first three times?  They are
> > evil, evil, evil, and I will leave the ISP business if they ever buy a
> > national ISP.  Blech.
> 
> you're being awfully mild about nynex.
> 
> nynex is without question the worst local telco in the
> known universe.

You obviously have never dealt with PTTs in countries like Greece or
India, or for that matter, in subsaharan Africa...

Perry