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   Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3 (blaise@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jul-2025 07:00:33 JST Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3

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   • Jeri Dansky
   • Matt Blaze
   • MsMerope
   • AI6YR Ben
   • Sindarina, Edge Case Detective
   • Jeff

   @evilotto @jeridansky @ai6yr @sindarina @mattblaze @MsMerope
   wow, in my Boston suburb, they deactivated the POTS line a while ago :blobfoxsad:

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     Jeri Dansky (jeridansky@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jul-2025 07:00:34 JST Jeri Dansky

     • Matt Blaze
     • MsMerope
     • AI6YR Ben
     • Sindarina, Edge Case Detective

     Regarding my question about keeping my copper phone lines or not, I just saw this which I'd missed before; AT&T has announced it intends to get rid of its copper networks by 2029, assuming regulators allow that. California might be an exception.

     https://www.pcmag.com/news/att-to-retire-traditional-landlines-by-2029-except-in-this-state

     In 2024, California said no to its request to get out of its Carrier of Last Resort obligations.
     https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/news-and-updates/all-news/cpuc-rejects-att-request-to-withdraw-as-carrier.

     But it's trying again:
     https://www.ptreyeslight.com/news/landlines-endangered-by-rule-update/

     @ai6yr @sindarina @mattblaze
     @MsMerope

     #POTS

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     Jeff (evilotto@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jul-2025 07:00:34 JST Jeff

     in reply to

     • Jeri Dansky
     • Matt Blaze
     • MsMerope
     • AI6YR Ben
     • Sindarina, Edge Case Detective

     @jeridansky @ai6yr @sindarina @mattblaze @MsMerope
     Land lines are already on life support. When my copper #POTS line went dead last year, I had to wait a week or so for a tech to be able to come out, scheduled on a very user-unfriendly support website. The tech mentioned in passing that there are only 2 or 3 techs covering the entire peninsula from SJ to SF, both COs and lines, because he had to wait for his counterpart to get to the CO to check the line from the other end.

     AT&T just wants to focus on the higher margin and more monetizable business of selling expensive lifetime-limited electronics that push ads and tracking into our pockets.