BREAKING: It appears that AT&T's attempt to end landlines in California will be rejected!
The administrative law judge issued a scathing preliminary decision which is likely to be followed when the CPUC meets to vote in June. He ruled that the application should be dismissed with prejudice. More details as I understand them. A decision was previously expected in September, so this came down very fast.
More on this. The judge accuses AT&T of misrepresenting/lying about key facts. The judge's recommendation to the CPUC is based on a fairly technical reading of the Carrier of Last Resort (COLR) rules. He recommends that the CPUC initiate a new rulemaking to examine how the COLR rules should be updated to account for technology changes, but also notes that the alternatives that AT&T suggested to landlines (wireless, cable VoIP, etc.) are not available in all areas, not adequate in all areas, and that those other firms under current rules are not even obligated to serve everyone who wants access to them.
He also says that AT&T should not be permitted to file a new application to be relieved of COLR obligations until at least a year after the conclusion of this new proceeding regarding the revising of COLR rules -- a proceeding that itself is likely to be very controversial.
The bottom line is that I suspect -- assuming the CPUC votes in accordance with the judge which is considered very likely (it would be highly controversial if they didn't), that this issue (as far as subscribers are concerned) is probably pushed down the line (no pun intended) a couple of years at least, but nothing is certain until the CPUC votes and even then there will be many open questions about this new proceeding that the judge recommends.
Also, Google Search AI overviews are incorrectly claiming that FCC Order 19-72A1 requires the end of all POTS landlines by ... August 2, 2022. Yeah, 2022. In fact, the order was not a mandate, but permission for carriers to move toward other technologies and eliminated certain resale requirements. However, as Google now gets wrong (and I'm seeing this in some articles written just today about the CPUC and AT&T landlines judge's decision), 19-72A1 did not require the end of landlines by 2022 or any other date. Misinformation is NOT helpful.
@lauren@timrichards Yes, and if I look at the post on your server, I see that the link is complete. But the copy that has been distributed (at least to aus.social and discuss.systems) has the truncated URL. Who would have thought that software might not be operating perfectly correctly?
@Drbruced@timrichards The only thing I can think of is that the original post was edited -- I not infrequently fix a typo or two -- and that the edited version was not correctly promulgated everywhere. But that's totally automatic and out of my hands, so to speak. But we know that in various respects the Mastodon topology is rather fragile.
@Drbruced@timrichards It occurs to me that I sometimes see posts quite delayed -- sometimes extremely so. I don't know offhand the details of how retry backoffs work on the various servers, but I know my own server can sometimes be hammered very hard at my follower size, and other servers can have their load problems too of course. I wouldn't be surprised if the edited version that doesn't have that problem isn't floating around the Net and various systems just not having been fully delivered or processed yet.
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