I've heard from different sources, but haven't seen it personally.
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Hey - Anyone heard anything else about Frontier taking over the AT&T landlines? I know Frontier is expanding its wireline broadband service all over the place - Indiana, Ill., TX, so it makes sense that it would want CA's business too.
I've checked and their is no bill that exists regarding this. The last bill introduced to get out of continuing to service copper was SB2395 and it was voted on 11/30/2016 and was defeated. The rumors are that frontier is buying California wireline from T and that would not require a bill. Hurd rumblings that customers are already being informed of their billing going frontier in the late fall/winter.
We will find out one way or another, typically in the news
Pics or it didn't happen. In all seriousness the company wouldn't sell customers off to other companies before it made an official announcement. I'm filing this one under bogus.
Keeping employees in the dark is the top quality of AT&T management. AT&T is looking to unload its landline network, as Verizon did in the past, the general consensus is that AT&T sees no future in copper landlines
AT&T's chief executive, Randall Stephenson, repeatedly has indicated that the company aims to abandon outdated technology by the end of the decade.
In recent days, I spoke with several AT&T technicians, each of whom asked to remain anonymous to avoid reprisals. They said supervisors statewide are alerting workers that the company's traditional copper-wire network and central switching offices will start being phased out beginning in 2018.
They're also saying that one scenario being discussed among AT&T insiders is for Frontier to acquire AT&T's California landline phone network, just as it did with Verizon's system.
ISo, on the one hand, AT&T says it's aiming to have all customers using "new technology" by 2020 and admits it's preparing staffers for a digital future. On the other, it says there are no plans to jettison the old-school copper wires now running into many people's homes.If I had to guess, I'd say the company is trying to have it both ways to avoid talking down the value of its landline network prior to a possible sale. The true intent of the legislation is to allow AT&T to stop investing in rural areas where copper landline networks are expensive to maintain.
The larest example was the 1 day CWA strike during contract negotiations which they called " grievance Strike" very sad situation for anyone overed under a pension plan, after all it is a benefit.