An effect of this in rapidly growing areas was the the independents,
> frequently bought up by GTE, owned the areas of high-growth,
> high-income in the suburbs. Some of this places where this was
> particular noticeable was in the Southern California area (General of
> California was larger than at least a couple of the Bell operating
> companies and attracted some senior Bell executives to fill high-level > vacancies)
SoCal is still pretty well divided between Verizon and SBC.
San Diego and its suburbs and Los Angeles and *its* suburbs differ by neighborhood (or so it seems).
Up here, the Victor Valley is Verizon, while 90 minutes west of my house, the Antelope Valley is SBC.
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