California state regulators say AT&T lied to the Federal Communications Commission in an attempt to shut off its old copper phone network without providing an adequate replacement.
“AT&T asserts that California seeks to prohibit or hinder wireline carriers from discontinuing copper facilities and investing in fiber,” said a June 15 filing by the state of California and the California Public Utilities Commission. “Indeed, AT&T has been making this argument for years. It is not and has never been true.”
As we reported last month, AT&T sued California over the state’s refusal to let it stop providing phone service to all potential customers in its wireline network territory. AT&T also petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to declare that California cannot enforce its rules and to let AT&T stop providing service to about 199,000 phone customers.
A few times. I first started disliking NPR in 2016 when their coverage was so bad that I felt compelled several times to ask them to stop pretending Bernie was fringe, but that obviously never changed. I’d say I get fed up enough to send them a thing like once a year. They don’t care; their big donors have always been corporate, even before their federal funding got cut.
Last time I sent feedback I was asking them to make local stations’ newscasts accessible on NPR One; I can’t find an archive of any local station’s newscasts, and the only way to listen to them online at all was to first skip past the national one and just hope the local one was queued up.
Since I sent that, I no longer get my local casts on NPR One at all. Probably a coincidence, I must be tuning in at the wrong time of day… Idk. Fuck em.
Yea, that’s sad. I wonder how many corporate donors are heavy left, and what would happen if your messages went to them, instead.