The IP Transition 'Con': Shut Off the Copper-- Force-March to Wireless.
AT&T's plan is really simple - Using something called the "IP Transition", tell everyone that there's new technology that is the future, if only regulations and consumer protections were removed.
Though I paraphrase and expose the subplot, here is what AT&T claimed were the original goals for Carbon Hill: 55 percent all wireless, U-verse representing 41 percent, leaving 4 percent of the area where the company still can't offer service and it is marked "TBD"(to be determined).