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GTE Seeks Rural Local Phone Company Status in Virginia.(Originated from The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 1996 by Mayfield, Dave
Oct. 8--GTE Corp. has asked Virginia's State Corporation Commission to classify it as a rural local telephone company. If granted, GTE's rural status could make it harder for other telephone companies to offer competing local-exchange phone services in GTE's service territory.
GTE is the nation's largest local phone services provider and the second-largest in Virginia, behind Bell Atlantic Corp. But it contends its individual systems in Virginia are largely in rural areas.
The distinction is important. Under the federal telecommunication-reform bill signed into law in February by President Clinton, rural telephone companies aren't required to take many of the same steps as other local phone-services providers, like Bell Atlantic, to open...
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