"Access to telephone landlines could be in jeopardy for some California residents depending on an upcoming decision by the California Public Utilities Commission. AT&T is required to provide service as the states “Carrier of Last Resort,” providing basic telephone service in a particular area. AT&T wants to end that obligation. If approved, and another company doesn’t volunteer to provide service, it would affect customers in certain service areas throughout the state"
It's pretty much all those little less- or non-profitable corners, typically forested or hilly, where a carrier of last resort is the only carrier. There's no cell service and typically no Internet. You know, the exact reason the regulation existed until now?
Personally, after what they did to solar power in California over the last two years, I do not trust Newsom's PUC to do the right thing.
