Vietnamese Riverside County

Pacific Bell on Wednesday unveiled its latest bilingual service, a Vietnamese center to help non-English-speaking customers get service for what some consider the most important appliance in any household--the telephone. In a move that is one part humanitarian and one part aggressive marketing, the company will reach out and touch the more than 100,000 Vietnamese refugees living in Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

Pacific Bell on Wednesday unveiled its latest bilingual service, a Vietnamese center to help non-English-speaking customers get service for what some consider the most important appliance in any household--the telephone. In a move that is one part humanitarian and one part aggressive marketing, the company will reach out and touch the more than 100,000 Vietnamese refugees living in Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.