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Re:Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom ev... by dsr_ on Thursday July 29, 2021 @11:30AM (#27997710)
Genuity was a data-center operator in Arizona; it was purchased by GTE, then used as the name for the network operating company which was later sold by Verizon to Level3. L3 was bought by CenturyLink, now part of Lumen.

I suspect Lumen still owns the Genuity trademark for network related activities, and IT management is rather close to that.

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Re:Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom ev... by skulle16 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @12:10PM (#27998119)
Great memory. When GTE merged with Bell Atlantic to form Verizon, they had to spin out their Internet assets which became Genuity. Genuity was a large publicly traded ISP but ultimately went Ch 11 when Verizon did not buy them. Level 3 bought their assets, Qwest (now Lumen) bought Level 3 .

We always liked the name and did check on the mark.

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Re:Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom ev... by dsr_ on Friday July 30, 2021 @10:04AM (#28008085)
It's not really a great memory if you were working for one or more of them -- and I was.
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Re:Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom ev... by skulle16 on Friday July 30, 2021 @11:42AM (#28009184)
Very cool and you would know. Lots of battle scars from that period in telecom.
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Re:Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom ev... by skulle16 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @12:17PM (#27998181)
Qwest became Centurylink then Lumen :).
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