oh they will keep doing dsl the last mile and less. They just want to be
able to cut up there copper plant so they don't have to maintain the old
circuit types like alarm lines and clec dsl pairs.
On 4/3/2017 11:35 AM, Chris Wright wrote:
DSL too.
Chris Wright
Network Administrator
*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Timothy Steele
*Sent:* Monday, April 03, 2017 6:42 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] See Ya later copper
Better hurry up and get wireless to all the dialup customers...
On Mon, Apr 3, 2017, 8:55 AM Lewis Bergman <[email protected]
<mailto:[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legislature voted to allow basic landline services to be withdrawn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/.
