Thank you to Vicki Sievers of Marin County, CA for sending this out:
PROTECT SURVIVAL OF LANDLINE PHONE, WIRED DSL INTERNET & LIFELINE PROGRAM
ATT has sent a petition “ to retire and discontinue Copper Landline phone service or POTS= Plain Old Telephone Service.” The termination of the copper landline would also discontinue the Wired DSL internet service, since DSL wired internet relies on a landline phone connection.
ATT’s plan is to transition all landline phone services into wireless based phones, cell phones, computer phones, VOIP phones, wifi wireless modem phones, mobile phones as the only available phone internet service provided to the public. ATT has also applied to discontinue its participation in the Lifeline credit program that makes phone, internet services affordable and available to thousands of people.
The CPUC commission will decide on June 30, 2023 on whether to reject or approve ATT’s petition to retire the copper landline and Lifeline program.
Investment and survival of copper landline phone equipment & services and in a wired infrastructure is a large part of the solution to prevent the increased installation of cell towers with a wireless infrastructure.
📢 CONTACT THE CPUC TO ASK THE CPUC TO DENY & REJECT ATT’S APPLICATION TO RETIRE COPPER LANDLINE PHONE, DSL WIRED INTERNET SERVICES & THE LIFELINE SUBSIDY PROGRAM.
IF FOR ANY OF THE REASONS BELOW, YOU REQUIRE COPPER LANDLINE, WIRED DSL INTERNET OR THE LIFELINE PROGRAM ASK THE CPUC TO PROTECT, PRESERVE AND INVEST IN THOSE SERVICES AND FOR THE CPUC TO DENY ATT’S APPLICATION TO RETIRE THOSE SERVICES OR THE LIFELINE PROGRAM.
Even if you do not require a copper landline, your calls will support those who do, and will help prevent more wireless installations. Thank you.
REFER TO A2303003:
1. Comments can be sent to the Public Advisor’s office at public.advisor@cpuc.ca.gov ,
Put re A2303003 in the subject line.
3. Call CPUC at any/all of these numbers.
1-866-849-8390
415 703-1584
415 703-2074
4. Call CPUC ADA Office
415 703-2782
1-800 649-7570
1. If you are a person who for any reason requires copper landline phone, wired DSL internet as the only usable, safe, reliable, phone, internet service.
2. Or if you require the permanent protection of accessible, affordable copper landline, wired DSL internet as an ADA or medical/ health accommodation.
3. Or If you can NOT use wireless, wifi, smart technology, Modem based phones, cell phones, computer, mobile or VOIP phones, wifi modems or wireless internet.
4. Or if the copper landline phone, wired DSL internet equipment, services are required for your situation, area, family, job, county, community, etc
5. Or you or your family, community, area will be adversely affected survive without permanently available, affordable copper landline phone services, wired, DSL internet
6. Or you require the survival of the Lifeline subsidy program in order to have phone, internet use.
7. You, your community, your area require investment in preserving copper landline phone with a wired infrastructure. You or your region will be negatively affected by the plan to implement a wireless infrastructure for phone, internet.
Dear CPUC,
Please do not approve ATT’s request to end landlines. Many customers rely totally on landlines and should be allowed to keep them.
Sincerely,
Robert O’Brien
10053 trainer Lane
Rough and Ready, CA. 95965
I do not have a cell phone – only a landline. Please do NOT make people go to cell phones.
As a person disabled by failure to regulate the pesticide chlordane which has left me with in inoperable brain stem tumor and toxicant-induced loss of tolerance, including EMF’s I require the permanent protection of accessible, affordable copper landline, wired DSL internet as an ADA or medical/ health accommodation and view removal of such to be a clear violation of ADA laws.
Please regard the request by AT&T to remove support for copper wire Landlines and DSL internet in violation of U.S. Federal laws supporting communication in rural and Indian Tribal Lands, and therefore discriminatory. This is unlawful consolidation of technological communication in violation of U.S. Anti-Trust law and collusion with cell communication providers to reduce industry competition and increase prices to consumers. Lifeline subsidies provided therein to low income Americans are necessary to provide minimum financial support to millions of Landline, DSL, cell phone and internet customers.
I mainly use a landline that uses copper wires. Please keep them viable and in use. It is my Lifeline to basic communication.
Please do not end land lines. These are very helpful for some people, and they must not go away. Please support all efforts to save land lines. Thank you.
We now know that smart meters are not good for us, and we should be able to have a choice
Any of the following reasons should stand alone to reject AT&T’s proposal:
1) The landline program is our family’s only reliable source of connectivity due to location and lack of cell service.
2) Frequent power outages prohibit internet based connectivity to be reliable.
3) With a disabled person in the house (and two elderly neighbors with similar reception and power reliability issues), this could be a life or death situation.
4) Much of Sonoma County housing is spaced out such that even walking to neighbors to alert of safety issues is prohibitive, so forcing reliability on electricity for cell phones or internet services is not in the interest of the people.
Please deny ATT’s application to retire and discontinue Copper and Landline service. This is our lifeline in remote areas for emergencies and for the unavailability of cell coverage because of terrain in our areas. The first to go usually are the cell towers. Without our landline we would have been in trouble during the last CZU big fire in our area. My husband is disabled and unable to use other than a landline. He also has medical devices which need it to report any medical issues.
Cell phones cause cancer I do not want one. They cause tumors. No thanks. please quit stepping on my freedom to own a landline for my computer and home phone. I am not addicted to a cell phone like the rest of thses idiots who always talk really loud in the resturant on their stupid cell phone because it makes them feel important. Also children should do something good with their time instead of burying their head in a cell phone game because it is a waste of a life.
I cannot afford a cell phone nor do I want one I enjoy being away from the phone when I leave my house. Being disable I like to use a landline.
Please do not discontinue my landline telephone & broadband DSL line for my computer. I live in a Mobil Home Park & the wireline is buried not bothering anything or anybody. Cellphones & other wireless devices, such as computers are detrimental to our health. bigtime, research it & you’ll see what I mean. I didn’t get to be 87 & healthy by being stupid or foolish. Your health is your only real wealth.
This is horrible. AT&T is a satanic organization. They want to do this across the entire world, people need to wake UP and stop this HELLPHONE madness. Don’t they know about transhumanism and the REAL plan? It’s not a far journey to brain implants with biochips instead of hand-held dumbphones….the mark of the beast is for real, these blind sheep who can’t see beyond their noses, who embrace every new technology don’t know what they are headed for….Revelation 13, KJV.