GTE Alaska Phone Service Retirement Benefit gone with Company Sale.

[Guest Marvin Hartshorn]

This is a personal situation I've encountered. I hope it is appropriate for this Forum.

My wife & I retired from GTE Alaska 1988/1989.

One of our benifits was to be provided with local telephone service, which has been provided for the past 11/12 years.

Now, when GTE merged with Bell Atlantic, they sold off the Alaska division to an independent operator. This sale of GTE Alaska was finalized August 31st, 2000.ic

A week after the sale was finalized, My wife and I received notice that our local phone service retirement benefit was terminated.

I would presume that the obligation would fall on the parent company, when the affilate dissapeared.

Do We have any options?