Trusting AT&T
I really don't like to put it this way, and I don't mean it as a 100%
sort of statement. But I've been dealing with AT&T since I was a
teenager. I even faced them with a couple of friends in a hearing at
the California Public Utilities Commission when they tried
(unsuccessfully, because I caught them in what was essentially a lie)
to shut down our world famous free telephone entertainment service,
"ZZZZZZ".
They have lied to municipalities about promised fiber deployments,
they have -- since their 1984 court-ordered divestiture -- tried to do
everything possible to escape from the public service and universal
service requirements of which they were once so publicly proud as "The
Bell System".
They only install fiber where they think it will make them the most
money, despite those previous deployment promises. That can mean
people on one side of the street have it, and the other side can't get
it -- both in AT&T service areas. Just like ordinary landlines, any
data and even VoIP has to come over copper (e.g. U-verse). That's all
there is.
That they want to essentially withdraw from conventional wired
services and especially landlines in California is not a surprise,
because over the years they have become, if not deeply evil, deeply
untrustworthy.
The bottom line: Do not assume that anything they say is necessarily
accurate, especially in the current cases before the CPUC here in
California.
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
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