Do any of you remember Americast Cable TV that was owned and operated by GTE. Only lasted about 2 years before GTE shut it down and sold off the cable TV plant. Stupid decisions like to run all new RG7 instead of using the existing RG6 took the company down. Just how FIOS Tv 📺 failed miserably. The more you look at the past and realize how corrupt Telcom is. It just might be the shadiest industry I know of.
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The SEC should have been notified. Frontier/SPINCO was an illegal "book cooking" sham. SEC pays millions to whistleblowers. The integration was the "big lie"..........
Glorious? Yea, it was glorius when the VP of Ops, and the rest of the East Coast CWA/IBEW mafia thugs threw Texas under the rug. CAN YOU SPELL D/FW, FIBER NETWORK MANAGMENT CENTER? FNMC. Once the East Coast mob stole the jobs and sold off Texas it was a done deal for them. Obama/FCC he owned it. The sale was an illegal sham. There never was an integration of Network Tools. Who are you kidding? Glorious my a$$.
I sure do wish someone could answer my question then set of complaining what is the standard point system across the company is it three jobs on trouble 2.5 because where I’m at they are pushing 4 to 5 jobs down our throats trouble tickets not including bonded orders and they expect us to get it done in eight hours no overtime please let me know what is the standard it should be three jobs per day which is total of 6.15 points please let me know thank you
Since Frontier hasn’t been around for even 15 years I call BS. I’m also in California and have been since the glory days of GTE and Verizon. This place is a dysfunctional mess. If you can’t see that you are no doubt part of the dysfunction.
“Glory Days’ laughing my a-s off. So ‘glorious’ that Verizon sold us as they thought fiber was a dead loss. If they’d thought otherwise they’d have kept us. And BTW I work every day to make Frontier better. What do you do eh? Sit in your CO probably and just complain. Yeah, living the dream. Hahaha
Please... One sits in the CO the other sit under a tree in his van/L90/bo-m. Both are reading the paper 2x over 15 years ago. Now watching po-n on their phone.
Since Frontier hasn’t been around for even 15 years I call BS. I’m also in California and have been since the glory days of GTE and Verizon. This place is a dysfunctional mess. If you can’t see that you are no doubt part of the dysfunction.
“Glory Days’ laughing my a-s off. So ‘glorious’ that Verizon sold us as they thought fiber was a dead loss. If they’d thought otherwise they’d have kept us. And BTW I work every day to make Frontier better. What do you do eh? Sit in your CO probably and just complain. Yeah, living the dream. Hahaha
Field Tech, California. Seen em all come and go, and I can tell you we've not had this much momentum and progress in years.
Since Frontier hasn’t been around for even 15 years I call BS. I’m also in California and have been since the glory days of GTE and Verizon. This place is a dysfunctional mess. If you can’t see that you are no doubt part of the dysfunction.
You can call it whatever you like - I’ve been here, and previous incarnations, 40+ years. The last ten have been dire, now we are on the up. Maybe you can’t read the numbers or whatever your problem is. It’s plain for anyone to see, yes we’ve still got stuff to fix, but by God the company needs the progress we’ve made over the last year. All you who just want things to be like in the past are living in cuckoo land. Just because I’m not terminally negative like most on here doesn’t mean my view is worth less.
Field Tech, California. Seen em all come and go, and I can tell you we've not had this much momentum and progress in years.
Since Frontier hasn’t been around for even 15 years I call BS. I’m also in California and have been since the glory days of GTE and Verizon. This place is a dysfunctional mess. If you can’t see that you are no doubt part of the dysfunction.
Disagree, Frontier is in the best shape its been I'm for years. And I should know I've worked here for 40+. Leadership is changing things but by God they need to change. Some people don't like change, they're always the ones who get left behind. Just sayin'
I’m curious. Where and how you have worked for Frontier for 40+ years?
- Field Tech, California. Seen em all come and go, and I can tell you we've not had this much momentum and progress in years.
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Disagree, Frontier is in the best shape its been I'm for years. And I should know I've worked here for 40+. Leadership is changing things but by God they need to change. Some people don't like change, they're always the ones who get left behind. Just sayin'
I’m curious. Where and how you have worked for Frontier for 40+ years?
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Disagree, Frontier is in the best shape its been I'm for years. And I should know I've worked here for 40+. Leadership is changing things but by God they need to change. Some people don't like change, they're always the ones who get left behind. Just sayin'
I’m curious. Where and how you have worked for Frontier for 40+ years?
Yes, definitely remember Americast. Reason the coax cable was rerun was that the cable company TCI, which was acquired by Time Warner (renamed later to Brighthouse and now Spectrum) sued Americast because having a competitor was new them - and they felt threatened - and Americast was forced to run the new coax and room outlets. Applaud GTE for breaking that barrier. Americast then later became Knology, and now they're WOW. In 4 rooms of my home, I have 2 sets of cable/coax because of Americast being forced to run new coax
cable when TCI/Time Warner felt their corporate pockets threatened. In regards to GTE, they were never a Bell Company. In later years, once GTE became Verizon, they had merged with Bell Atlantic (which was a Bell Company), but GTE itself was never a Bell Company. Does any of this matter? Not really, just clarifying some history here. I enjoy the history of telecommunications and well remember the 1982 MaBell divorce / AT&T divestiture - as a result of the US government anti-trust lawsuit, the Judge Greene decision - which also resulted in the allowance for the bridging of service time for MaBell employees nationwide, if on property 12-31-1983 / 1-1-1984 - all this is tied into that federal anti-trust decision and ERISA laws. It brought about much more competition, new companies, lower rates, especially for long distance calling and eventually that expanded to cable competition too. And now ... we have Frontier in that lineage too
No one said GTE was a Bell company. It was pointed out that GTE employees were Bell core competent. Spot on with all your other thoughts though.
Disagree, Frontier is in the best shape its been I'm for years. And I should know I've worked here for 40+. Leadership is changing things but by God they need to change. Some people don't like change, they're always the ones who get left behind. Just sayin'
Yes, definitely remember Americast. Reason the coax cable was rerun was that the cable company TCI, which was acquired by Time Warner (renamed later to Brighthouse and now Spectrum) sued Americast because having a competitor was new them - and they felt threatened - and Americast was forced to run the new coax and room outlets. Applaud GTE for breaking that barrier. Americast then later became Knology, and now they're WOW. In 4 rooms of my home, I have 2 sets of cable/coax because of Americast being forced to run new coax
cable when TCI/Time Warner felt their corporate pockets threatened. In regards to GTE, they were never a Bell Company. In later years, once GTE became Verizon, they had merged with Bell Atlantic (which was a Bell Company), but GTE itself was never a Bell Company. Does any of this matter? Not really, just clarifying some history here. I enjoy the history of telecommunications and well remember the 1982 MaBell divorce / AT&T divestiture - as a result of the US government anti-trust lawsuit, the Judge Greene decision - which also resulted in the allowance for the bridging of service time for MaBell employees nationwide, if on property 12-31-1983 / 1-1-1984 - all this is tied into that federal anti-trust decision and ERISA laws. It brought about much more competition, new companies, lower rates, especially for long distance calling and eventually that expanded to cable competition too. And now ... we have Frontier in that lineage too.
Kodak started out good till their leadership caused their innovation to tank.. just like ftr.. except ftr bought 3 junk states and continues to hire ceos that don't give a sh!t about their employees.
Except frontier is neither a great company nor has good leadership.
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Does anyone remember Kodak. Great company, brilliant leadership. Stone cold dead because they did not move with the times......
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The only difference is GTE actually knew how to run a company. They didn’t try to nickel and dime their employees or sell off physical properties at a loss to try and show a quarterly revenue stream. Or take money from the fed while claiming upgrades to rural communities. When in reality you use that money for bonuses and the appearance of quarterly profit. Comparing Frontier to GTE is like comparing the non English speaking and untrained contractors to the Bell core standard trained employees of GTE. There just isn’t any comparison. In regards to management between the 2 companies. GTE had highly skilled and qualified people as managers, directors and executives. All of whom actually knew the business from top to bottom. The managers, directors and executives of Frontier might be better suited to running a company like Facebook or other some such imaginary widget company. Something that requires no foundations in reality of physical infrastructure.