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12 unusual facts about GTE


1988 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans

On February 28, 1988, GTE and CoSIDA announced the 1988 Academic All-America team, with Michael Smith headlining the University Division as the first men's college basketball Academic All-American of the Year.

Bola Tinubu

Tinubu worked for American companies Arthur Andersen, Deloitte, Haskins, & Sells, and GTE Services Corporation.

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems

The company represents the acquisition and realignment of other government and defense contractors including GTE, Lucent Technologies, Digital Systems Resources (DSR), Veridian, Motorola and Spectrum Astro.

GTE

That same year Sylvania acquired name and distribution rights for Philco television and stereo products.

When BC Tel merged with Telus (the name given the privatized Alberta Government Telephones (AGT)) to create BCT.Telus, GTE's Canadian subsidiaries were merged into the new parent, making it the second-largest telecommunications carrier in Canada.

Hunter Goodwin

He played as an offensive tackle for the Aggies for two years where he was an All-Southwest Conference pick, second team All-American, and GTE Scholar Athlete.

Jim Warman

All the AEI staff were sacked, including those on the TXE project and it was then that Jim joined GTE International, the American company, as European technical director based in Milan, along with some members of his team from AEI.

Kevin Kaesviharn

Shortly after his senior season he participated in the Division II All-Star game and was named First-Team All-North Central Conference at cornerback, Academic All-North Central Conference, GTE Academic All-American District VII Second Team and Daktronics Division II All-Midwest Region Second Team.

Kristin Folkl

In her senior year, she was a first team All-American in both sports and was named the GTE Academic Player of the Year.

Remote sensing

Several research groups in Silicon Valley including NASA Ames Research Center, GTE and ESL Inc. developed Fourier transform techniques leading to the first notable enhancement of imagery data.

Vinita Gupta

In her early career, Gupta worked as an engineer for GTE Lenkurt and later held engineering management positions at Bell Northern Research (now part of Nortel Networks).

William T. Coleman III

Coleman also held positions as a Director of Product Development at VisiCorp and Manager of the High Frequency Systems Group at GTE Sylvania.


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AF Corse

For 2012, AF Corse competed in a variety of sports car championships throughout Europe and globally, including the FIA World Endurance Championship and GT1 World Championship with Ferrari F458 Italia GT2s and Ferrari F458 Italia GT3s, including a co-branded for GTE-Am class car with Michael Waltrip Racing, AF Waltrip.

Alan M. Davis

He has held industry positions at GTE (a Director of R&D at GTE Communication Systems in Phoenix, Arizona; and Director of the Software Technology Center at GTE Laboratories in Waltham, Massachusetts), BTG (Vice President in Vienna, Virginia), and Omni-Vista (President in Colorado Springs, Colorado).

Comm South Companies

Examples of local telephone companies were the big Bell companies such as Southwestern and Pacific Bell, Alltel and GTE.

EAX

GTD-5 EAX, class 5 digital telephone switch typically used in former GTE service areas

Horry Telephone Cooperative

Because many of the beach areas were served by national providers such as GTE, Horry Telephone introduced Measured Extended area service (MEAS) in 1988 to reduce the cost of phone calls between the western portion of Horry County and the beach areas.

Las Colinas

During the 1980s building boom, Las Colinas became a popular location for relocating companies and office developers, attracting many corporations—including the global headquarters of four Fortune 500 companies and offices of more than 30 others, such as Exxon Mobil Corporation, GTE Telephone (now Verizon), Kimberly-Clark and Associates Corp.

Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company

PLDT was established on November 28, 1928, by an act of the Philippine legislature and approved by then Governor-General Henry L. Stimson by means of a merger of four telephone companies under operation of the American telephone company GTE.

Qwest Wireless

Prior to Qwest's acquisition of the RBOC US West, and unrelated to US West Wireless which became Qwest Wireless, US West operated its own analog cellular service, which merged with AirTouch and was eventually combined with GTE and PrimeCo to become Verizon Wireless.

Tom Karen

He oversaw design of the Bush Radio TR130 radio, the Raleigh Chopper, the Bond Bug, the Reliant Scimitar GTE, the Anadol A1 (FW5), an award-winning series of truck cabs for Leyland, and the Marble Run.

Toyota T engine

The 4T-GTE variant of this engine allowed Toyota to compete in the World Rally Championship in the early 1980s, making it the first Japanese manufacturer to do so.

WSUN-TV

In 1954, however, the area's main telephone provider, Peninsular Telephone (later owned by GTE), provided WSUN-TV with a private microwave link in time for the World Series, making it the first television station in the country to receive live programming via microwave relay.