GTE Corp’s GTE Telephone Operations and Citizens Utilities Co said GTE transferred 189,000 access lines in southern Idaho, Tennessee, Utah and West Virgina to Citizens effective December 31, 1993 following an agreement in May for Citizens to buy around 500,000 telephone access lines in nine states from GTE, which will receive $1,100m cash for the properties: the transaction will also involve a small portion of GTE’s properties in California, Idaho and Oregon going to Citizens as part of GTE’s strategy to trade or sell a small percentage of local exchange properties in markets that may be of greater long-term strategic value to other telephone service providers; About 525 GTE staff became Citizens Utilities staff.
