NO OPERATER ASSISTANCE IN PUERTO RICO

[miguelito]

i WAS TRYING TO GET OPERATER ASSISTANCE IN PUERTO RICO787-555-1212; AND TO MY DISBELIEVE I WAS TOLD THAT THE NUMBER HAS BEEN DISCONNECTED. THRU FURTHER INQUIRIES I WAS TOLD THAT PUERTO RICO NO LONGER HAS TELEPHONE OPERATOR ASSISTANCE. HOW CAN THIS BE, IS PUERTO RICO REGRESSING. WHO THE HELL MADE THIS DECISION???????? THIS IS AN EMBARRASSMENT.

[Suki]

He is the one that sold the Puerto Rico Telephone Company to GTE instead of a Spain owned company that offered more bucks for it than GTE? He was golfing while all this was happening and mass strikes were occurring. Though the phone company in PR before the sale was heavily criticized too because they would charge outrageously high rates for a call from let us say Bayamon to Naranjito as much or much higher than a call from San Juan to Chicago or Los Angeles and considered it "long-distance".

But the phone company employees who were under the gov't knew that if GTE or some other private scene took over many would lose their jobs to downsizing and many would lose seniority and retirement and many more things. And they did. I guess GTE does not want to pay the operator assistance multilingual people much cash at all do they?

Take care Miguelito.

Suki.

[miguelito]

Originally posted by Suki
He is the one that sold the Puerto Rico Telephone Company to GTE instead of a Spain owned company that offered more bucks for it than GTE? He was golfing while all this was happening and mass strikes were occurring. Though the phone company in PR before the sale was heavily criticized too because they would charge outrageously high rates for a call from let us say Bayamon to Naranjito as much or much higher than a call from San Juan to Chicago or Los Angeles and considered it "long-distance".

But the phone company employees who were under the gov't knew that if GTE or some other private scene took over many would lose their jobs to downsizing and many would lose seniority and retirement and many more things. And they did. I guess GTE does not want to pay the operator assistance multilingual people much cash at all do they?

Take care Miguelito.

Suki.

Your point was well made.It's a shame how things just happen in Puerto Rico. There's corruption from the top to the bottom and yet they don't realize it. Residents that i have spoken to, don't know of this.
The people don't hold their representatives accountable.
They seem to be complasive, as long as they get a little bit of whatever. Los Alcaldes are not held accountable when it comes to the monies allocated for their pueblos. Rosellos picture was up in everyones home and praised as El Jefe. I could not understand that. There are many issues that they should be advocating for, to include protests.
Getting involved in the political process will get them some results.
Lets hope one day they wake up;;;Miguel

[Conguero]

Miguel,

The problem in Puerto Rico when it comes to service is the idea of: No hay mas na'...You get what you get and tough! Even under the old telephone company PR telephone Company, the service wasn't that much better. For example, I moved just three blocks from one house to another and it took 30 days to get the phone hooked up and that after many calls and plenty of anti-acid tablets (for me). And it goes on and on. We do not, and I mean all of us, can really do anything, there is no competition from other companies. We get what there is. In reference to your statement on having our elected officials accountable, forget that! The great majority of our people vote with their emotions and who runs for their party. We would vote for a Mono if it was the president of the party. We equate party loyalty with the status issue (debatable), but that is reality in la isla del encanto.