[BC] putting phone calls on the air

[Harold Hallikainen]

Speaking of GTE, anyone remember the TV ads of the early 1970s where they
had a nervous GTE phone repair guy and the ad was something about they
recognize their reputation isn't that great, but they were working on
improving it? My first experience with GTE was also around then where I
was working at stations in Santa Maria, CA (where I now live). They had a
step exchange that absorbed the first two digits you dialed, so most
people only dialed the last five. It was real confusing when radio ads
gave 5 digit numbers for those people over the county line who had to dial
7 digits. 20 or 25 years later, I met Louise, who worked for GTE assigning
outside plant cable pairs and programming the switch for new and changed
service in Santa Barbara. We've now been married 11 years... Good things
came out of GTE!

Harold



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