Better hurry up and get wireless to all the dialup customers... On Mon, Apr 3, 2017, 8:55 AM Lewis Bergman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > *AT&T Wants Out of Maintaining Landlines in Illinois* > Telecom giant AT&T is asking for Illinois’ permission to scrap > requirements that the company maintain land-based phone lines, according to > the* Rock River Times*. > > A recent survey said only four percent of people in Illinois still rely > solely on landlines. AT&T has to obtain consent from state legislatures > before they can petition the FCC to be allowed to cut off the thousands of > miles of land-based phone lines. Other states want this option as well, so > the FCC has a vote planned this month by the U.S. Senate to accomplish > this. In 2015, the Ohio state legislature voted to allow basic landline > services to be withdrawn by the major telecom companies. (*see story > above*) > > “It’s taking a large investment that could be spent covering the vast > majority of their customers for wireless or IP-based phone services,” Brent > Skorup, Technology Fellow with the Mercatus Center told the *Rock River > Times*. >
