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They want to reinvest into rolling out FttH that they were given massive subsidies to build, right? Right?
AT&T described landline service as duplicative to its wireless and fiber-based internet offerings that the company says it could expand faster if it did not have to expend money and resources to support landlines.
That fiber that's two blocks away, has been for ten years, but they have no interest in bringing over because we don't pay them enough
Ah, I am sure they will just allow the public to determine what to do with this useful but unused infrastructure.
No? They own it? And you can't use it without forking over I dunno, 10 billion dollars to buy it from them?
Hrm.
I'm conflicted. On one hand, bye.
On the other hand, I can see the use cases of keeping it. Like bad cell reception and reliability.
But their example is really bad --
Oakland senior Carla Vinciguerra lives in a three-story home with a landline on each floor. If she suffered a medical emergency, and her cell phone were on a different floor, she could possibly crawl to a landline, she said, but without that option, she would have no way to summon help
Like damn, if that's the issue, carry your phone on your persons everywhere.
Don't live in a three-story home at that point either?
I bet you if they get their wish their next fiscal year will involve recording breaking profits instead of using that cost of maintenance to expand other services like they’re pretending they’ll do.
Every single thing has to be infinitely profitable
Landlines serve no ‘valid public purpose,’ AT&T says
I never thought I would wind up agreeing with AT&T
Large parts of the Bay Area mountains don't have cell service
Quite a bit of the central valley and mountains too.