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Re: AT&T sues California to abandon POTS customers, seeks FCC preemption

From oldernow <oldernow@dev.null>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: AT&T sues California to abandon POTS customers, seeks FCC preemption
Date 2026-05-26 16:51 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <slrn111bjtf.cp7.oldernow@oldernow.jethrick.com> (permalink)
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On 2026-05-26, Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
> Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>On Sun, 24 May 2026 19:48:39 -0400, InterLinked wrote:
>>
>>> Now is the time to have solidarity with those
>>> who need to have access to landline service
>>> for emergencies and reliable 911 access.
>>> And as the "analog divide" expands, so too
>>> does the digital divide, as people with access
>>> only to DSL or dial-up have that taken away
>>> from them too.
>> 
>> Yes, but ... Government action to protect
>> access to such a service is considered
>> Socialism, isnt it?
> 
> If telcos want to eliinate POTS, that's fine,
> as long as they find some other way to meet
> the tariff for the POTS service to the letter.
> 
> What is going on is actually not telcos wanting
> to get rid of POTS, it is a matter of telcos
> wanting to eliminate tariffed services with
> access and uptime requirements, so they can
> replace them with unregulated services that
> they can charge anything that they want for.

Holy crimenies! That's like at least a notch and
a half lower on the Objective Virtue Scale than
USENET trolls!!!

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AT&T sues California to abandon POTS customers, seeks FCC preemption InterLinked <usenet@phreaknet.org> - 2026-05-24 19:48 -0400
  Re: AT&T sues California to abandon POTS customers, seeks FCC preemption Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-25 03:44 +0000
    Re: AT&T sues California to abandon POTS customers, seeks FCC preemption Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-05-25 08:44 +0100
      Re: AT&T sues California to abandon POTS customers, seeks FCC preemption oldernow <oldernow@dev.null> - 2026-05-25 11:14 +0000
    Re: AT&T sues California to abandon POTS customers, seeks FCC preemption kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-05-26 12:30 -0400
      Re: AT&T sues California to abandon POTS customers, seeks FCC preemption oldernow <oldernow@dev.null> - 2026-05-26 16:51 +0000
      Re: AT&T sues California to abandon POTS customers, seeks FCC preemption Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-26 22:45 +0000
        Re: AT&T sues California to abandon POTS customers, seeks FCC preemption kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-05-27 00:46 -0400
          Re: AT&T sues California to abandon POTS customers, seeks FCC preemption Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-27 05:47 +0000
            Re: AT&T sues California to abandon POTS customers, seeks FCC preemption kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-05-28 02:24 -0400
  Re: AT&T sues California to abandon POTS customers, seeks FCC preemption Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-05-25 12:05 +0000
  Re: AT&T sues California to abandon POTS customers, seeks FCC preemption not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-05-26 10:38 +1000

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