EX. 10(iii)(A)5


 SNET EXECUTIVE NON-QUALIFIED PENSION PLAN AND EXCESS BENEFIT
                             PLAN
                               
                               
As approved by the Board of Directors on December 8, 1993, the
purpose  of  the  proposed redesign of the  executive  pension
plans is to have the same pension formula apply for executives
and  management employees, and maximize the benefits which may
be payable from the Pension Trust Fund.  The redesign replaces
the pension formula and Minimum Pension Benefit provisions  of
the Executive Non-Qualified Pension Plan (ENQPP) component  of
the  SNET  Executive  Non-Qualified Pension  Plan  and  Excess
Benefit  Plan  (Plan).  The provisions of the  Excess  Benefit
Plan  component of the Plan will be modified to be  consistent
with  the  changes to the SNET Management Pension Plan  (MPP).
Therefore,  it  is recommended that the name of  the  Plan  be
renamed   to  the  SNET  Pension  Benefit  Plan  (PBP).    The
redesigned  formula will facilitate the company's  ability  to
recruit  executives and ensure that SNET remains a competitive
employer of choice.

The amendments to the Plan are as follows:

        1.    Effective December 13, 1995, the ENQPP  adjusted
     career  income formula shall be calculated, in accordance
     with the Plan provisions, for all eligible executives who
     are  on  the active payroll as of December 13, 1995,  and
     the  accrued  vested pension benefit  payable  under  the
     ENQPP  shall  be  frozen.  Such frozen benefit  shall  be
     included with the accrued pension benefits calculated for
     each  such executive effective January 1, 1996 under  the
     career income average formula of the MPP for purposes  of
     ensuring that the total SNET pension benefit shall  never
     be  less than the amount to which each such executive was
     previously  entitled  before  application  of  any   plan
     amendments adopted hereunder; provided, however, that  in
     the event that such comparison of pension benefit amounts
     indicates  for any such executive that the  frozen  ENQPP
     benefit  is  included  in the higher  amount,  each  such
     executive's opening account under the provisions  of  the
     MPP  or Pension Benefit Plan component of the Plan  shall
     be determined using such higher pension benefit, and such
     frozen  ENQPP  pension  benefit will  not  be  separately
     available under the ENQPP provisions of the Plan.

     The  Minimum  Pension  Benefit provisions  of  the  ENQPP
     component  of  the  Plan  have  been  replaced   by   the
     redesigned MPP Cash Balance Plan formula, and  shall  not
     be  included in the determination of the accrued  pension
     benefits payable as of January 1, 1996.

     2.    Effective December 13, 1995, the Plan is amended to
     provide  that  upon  the last payment  of  ENQPP  pension
     benefits,   the  ENQPP  component  of  the   Plan   shall
     terminate.

     3.   Effective January 1, 1996, the Plan shall be renamed
     to the SNET Pension Benefit Plan (PBP).
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     4.    The  PBP  is amended effective January 1,  1996  to
     provide  for  the  establishment of a Cash  Balance  Plan
     (CBP)  account,  and  annual  pay  related  and  interest
     credits  commencing  January  1,  1997,  with  such   CBP
     provisions   determined  in  accordance  with   the   MPP
     amendments  outlined  in  Exhibit  A  based  on  eligible
     compensation  (as defined in the MPP) in  excess  of  the
     maximum  amount of compensation which may be included  in
     the  MPP  under  Section 401(a)(17)  of  the  Code.   The
     provisions  regarding the MPP benefit  which  exceed  the
     maximum  "annual  benefit" payable to participants  under
     the  MPP  in accordance with Section 415 of the  Internal
     Revenue  Code  (Code)  will continue.   At  the  time  an
     employee leaves the company on or after January 1,  1996,
     the  distribution election decision made by  an  employee
     under the MPP shall apply to any pension benefit that may
     be payable under the PBP.