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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Your explanation makes sense. Unfortunately.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I still have a landline going back to when 415 area code include all of San Mateo and parts of Santa Clara County. When DSL became available, I used that for home Internet. Now AT&T says I have fiber, but the last 100 meters are copper to a big box down the street. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I usually use the landline at home, because cell service is especially on rainy days when I don't want to go out to make a call. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I am aware that there are other ISP providers that use the same physical layer. So far, I've stayed with Ma Bell because if the line goes dead, I have one contact for service. I have made note of your past comments about static IP address, etc. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 12:29:42 AM PST, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>Quoting Paul Zander (paulz@ieee.org):<div class="ydpf96009d6yqt4764968279" id="ydpf96009d6yqtfd38291"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> I received email about hearings in Clovis and Ekiah. Something about<br clear="none">> ATT wanting Relief from its Carrier of Last Resort Obligation<br clear="none">> Anything I should be concerned about? </div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Depends. Do you depend on a landline? Or do you care about others,<br clear="none">notably rural folks, having the legal right to a landline?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">AT&T wants CPUC to absolve it of any legal obligation to provide<br clear="none">landline service in California (as it has also been trying to do<br clear="none">elsewhere) as "carrier of last resort", including operating local Public<br clear="none">Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) exchanges and offering basic <br clear="none">voice service at regulated prices on nondiscriminatory terms -- as part<br clear="none">of its utter mania for killing copper-pair service as quickly as it can<br clear="none">and do fiber-only. If this is granted than AT&T will no longer be<br clear="none">required to provide landlines for voice service wired DSL, either as the<br clear="none">vendor or as the line provider for other vendors.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">It's a... well, at minimum disappointing if predictable thing for the<br clear="none">company to request, and would adversely affect many people, largely in<br clear="none">rural areas that rely on POTS, especially in emergencies. It would<br clear="none">not, FWIW, affect my household, as we terminated landline service years<br clear="none">ago.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">They basically don't want to be told they have any societal obligations,<br clear="none">and are not part of the common infrastructure, because they want to be<br clear="none">free to wander off into Galt's Gulch and serve only highly profitable<br clear="none">markets, not ones that people need and rely on. Typical asshat<br clear="none">corporate highwaymen.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Background paper from about a decade ago (but the process of the fiber<br clear="none">transition has proceeded since then):<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://pubs.naruc.org/pub/FA85B978-00A3-862C-5E8D-9E10816FA7DB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://pubs.naruc.org/pub/FA85B978-00A3-862C-5E8D-9E10816FA7DB</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Some of the nasty politics:<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/11/11/secrets-of-an-att-scandal/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/11/11/secrets-of-an-att-scandal/</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://www.techdirt.com/2022/10/19/att-hit-with-23-million-fine-for-bribing-illinois-lawmaker/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.techdirt.com/2022/10/19/att-hit-with-23-million-fine-for-bribing-illinois-lawmaker/</a><div class="ydpf96009d6yqt4764968279" id="ydpf96009d6yqtfd32067"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div>
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