I worked for the telephone industry starting in 1964 as an apprentice lineman and then transfer in to customer service installing phones 15 months later. that company was a very small company that GTE of CA had bought before I was hired, They change the name to GTE while I was in the U.S. Army overseas in 1967, I went back to work for them in Sept of 1968 and thought I had got out of the Army and went to work in Marine Corp ,
They were a horrible company to work for, they thought the customer and the employees were only there for the company to suck a profit out of, they had me do illegal temporary and unsafe stuff to jury rig temporary fixes instead of taking the time to do it right and safely
I quit them in 1970 and went to work for another local telephone company 75 miles away called Continental telephone of CA which later became Contel pf CA. They were a excellent company to work for that had great benefits and treated the customers and employees with respect it was a privilege to work for them
GTE bought them in 1991 and I was reduced in force in 1997 at the ripe old age of 52 yrs. old, I hadn't planned on retiring but with what I had saved and earned in my 401K along what their buy out was I was able to do that, retire with the buyout, and make the same amount of money per month per month
I still live on that money today along with some other retirement income like S.S. and a small medical pension from vehicle injury in the Army.
I'm still looking and comparing prices and service, we will see
I'll post my results on here once I make that decision