If I recall correctly, Rochester (NY) is served by an independent LEC that was originally named Rochester Tel. They changed their name to Frontier Communications about 15 years ago. They had a long distance subsidiary, also under the Frontier name. This company either merged with or became Global Crossing.

There was a pretty nasty bankruptcy with the company about six years ago which resulted in customers being left with no service. I only know of one customer in Long Island, NY that was using them as a CLEC and ended up having to change their local numbers and everything, because the whole thing was tied up in court. From what I heard, the company's assets (customer base included) couldn't be touched by anyone, to include number porting, until the disposition of the bankruptcy. At the time, this thing was big news, similar to the Enron-type situation and I think people went to jail over it.

I didn't realize that GC was still around.

Ed Vaughn, MBSWWYPBX