Pacific Bell provided
adequate local
telephone service to
California and
Nevada. Their
commercials on
television for services such as
DSL were
hilarious. Unfortunately their actual DSL
service ranked somewhere between
piss-poor and
God-awful. Endless
horror stories abound concerning such things as
delays in service setup and long periods of service
interruption (on the order of
weeks).
Pacific Bell was later rebranded as "
SBC Pacific Bell" and later simply as "
SBC." SBC has since acquired
AT&T and is now called
AT&T,
Inc.