silence7@slrpnk.net to California@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoAT&T seeks to shut down landline service for most of the Bay Area, much of Californiawww.mercurynews.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up131arrow-down1external-linkAT&T seeks to shut down landline service for most of the Bay Area, much of Californiawww.mercurynews.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to California@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square11fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarenickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up15·10 months agoThey want to reinvest into rolling out FttH that they were given massive subsidies to build, right? Right?
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·10 months ago AT&T described landline service as duplicative to its wireless and fiber-based internet offerings that the company says it could expand faster if it did not have to expend money and resources to support landlines.
minus-squareHeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·10 months agoThat fiber that’s two blocks away, has been for ten years, but they have no interest in bringing over because we don’t pay them enough
minus-squarevexikronlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 months agoAh, I am sure they will just allow the public to determine what to do with this useful but unused infrastructure. No? They own it? And you can’t use it without forking over I dunno, 10 billion dollars to buy it from them? Hrm.
They want to reinvest into rolling out FttH that they were given massive subsidies to build, right? Right?
That fiber that’s two blocks away, has been for ten years, but they have no interest in bringing over because we don’t pay them enough
Ah, I am sure they will just allow the public to determine what to do with this useful but unused infrastructure.
No? They own it? And you can’t use it without forking over I dunno, 10 billion dollars to buy it from them?
Hrm.