90 miles west, in the Antelope Valley on the L.A. County side of the
> High Desert, it's all PacBell/SBC/at&t.
Contel was never in the LA Basin. It had the Victor Valley and up to Ridgecrest and the Eastern Sierra. The Eastern Sierra was originally served by a local LEC.
Barstow is, and was, Bell territory because it was a regional toll center way back when.
Palmdale is, and was Bell, but Lancaster was GTE.