Maybe with an outdated phone. 🤔

@@DG-hw8it It's not outdated if it is the only phone that can call the ambulance in an emergency, it's robust.

I can confirm this!!!

They said, "an expensive historical curiosity", wtf? just because many people don't use it doesn't mean there aren't people who still need it. Are they raising prices and trying to cut cost any way they can now?

AND, if the CPUC demands that AT&T keep those landline services in the desert and rural/mountainous areas, *I GURANTEE that AT&T will DEMAND a HUGE rate hike of those regions landlines if they are forced to keep them around: AND AT&T WILL GET THAT HUGE RATE HIKE.*

PG&E is a gas and electric utility. It does not handle telephone land lines. AT&T is the telecommunications utility that is responsible for the copper wire telephone infrastructure.

You can get yourself on the FCC do not call list.

Please tell me how a basic cell phone or dumb phone is complicated to use. They are available and it is not required to use a smart phone.

A basic flip phone with 1 year of service from Trac Phone $125. , i’m in my 70’s . Under stand present smart phones or anything smart electronics are a pain sometimes . My cell went out last week and had no service so bought a Trac phone for backup $70 with 1 year of service 1,500’minutes . Then went to verizon to get a better service . Like the days turn on turn channel volume up and down . I continue to use working as new record player VHS recorder player . My doctor tells me learn something new keep the brain healthy .

AT&T is cutting off their landline services so YOU better plan the alternative....... AND, on the VERY REMOTE chance that the CPUC does force AT&T to keep the landline service intact, then GUARANTEED that AT&T will DEMAND and WILL GET a HUGE rate increase on their landline service as AT&T is operating their landline service AT A LOSS and it's been policy forever that no government agency can FORCE a private enterprise to operate AT A LOSS INDEFINITELY...... *So if YOU get your wish to keep your landline: BE PREPARED TO PAY WAAAAAAYYYYY HIGHER FOR IT.....*

During the Tubbs fire, AT&T landlines were the only communication system that worked.

get a new provider.

The sate can mandate landline service but you can bet we'll all be paying a lot more to keep it up and running.

That guy has obviously never had to deal with ATT, we're customers and have to fight tooth and nail just to get a response for support requests, and then it's an endless game of point the finger and blame another department to run you around in circles. And that's how they treat customers that spend hundreds of thousands with them every year...

The public hearings are organized by the CPUC, not AT&T. Search Google for "AT&T Applications Regarding Carrier of Last Resort and Eligible Telecommunications Carrier Designation" for complete details of AT&T's application and opportunities for public comment and participation.

You don't have to do anything: you'll pick up the phone one day and there will be no dial tone........ JUST SILENCE. Your old Western Electric phone will be nothing but a good paperweight from then on.

Or get a new provider.

Not just the CPUC - we can't trust it. Make noise to Gavin and your state legislators.

😵‍💫 I better get my CB radio out buy a ham radio and satellite phone adapter .

I hate to be the bringer of negative but it's going to happen so start using the internet to figure out what you're going to do for the alternative. HINT: you're using INTERNET FOR KZfaq so that's where YOU start. ADDENDUM: AND, in the VERY REMOTE possibility that the CPUC forces AT&T to keep operating the copper landline services: PREPARE TO SEE YOUR LANDLINE BILL PROBABLY DOUBLE as AT&T will DEMAND and GET from the CPUC a HUGE rate increase to cover the cost of operating the NOW monies losing copper landline service.

Get a can and a string

There's wifi calling which goes through cable or fiber. Same as the landline.

@@user-cw2py6wh8l LMAO are you for real right now?

Its not about "control." ATT's motivation is strictly financial.

@@johnanderson8046 good point, I would of been willing to pay more for mine

@@Brendabrenda1942 If they do cancel service, you could get a new provider.

solution: VoIP, wifi calling, etc

Senile is a terrible word for it. Many just prefer a landline, including me.

_"I've never owned a cellphone and never will, mostly because of my veganism, which is lifestyle as well as dietary"_ *Hmmmmmmmmm......... YET YOU ARE CLEARLY ON THE INTERNET......*

@@archstanton5973Likely they are at the library using the internet!

@@archstanton5973 That's also true. What's your point?

If ATT cuts out of the landline business, there probably will not BE "a different provider" willing to step into that market.

@@johnanderson8046 What makes you think so? If AT&T gets out of the landline business, I'm sure there will be increased protests by those who want to retain their landlines.

AT&T and Verizon started ditching the payphones when their revenue collectors were figuring out that their payphones were getting used MAYBE once every week OR LESS. With that kind of use it was costing AT&T and Verizon more to keep the payphones around. Thus they sold off their payphones to corporate communication parties that figured they could somehow extract profits from those not-used-much-at-all payphones. Well those "corporate communication" companies soon discovered that AT&T and Verizon sold off their payphones FOR A REASON and thus they TOO ripped out their payphones AS THEY WERE LOSING MASSIVIE MONIES TO KEEP THEM AROUND. *Thus why there is no payphone to be found ANYWHERE across North America...... even the payphones that used to be in front of the "general store" in the most remote rural and mountainous areas no long exist......*

And when your internet goes down, so does your phone.

@@Toast0808 True. But some of us are lucky to never lose their internet.

Actually, my landline phone now goes through my computer's high speed modem. The last time the power went out (just last week during the storm), the landline phone did not work! I didn't know that would happen when I allowed the tech to change the connection when I got high speed internet - he just told me AT & T was not going to use the copper wires anymore & that I would eventually have to change it. I was able to make a phone call with my little Tracfone, however.

There is no such thing as internet service that "never goes down."@@tenossos

You might want to brush up on VOIP as you OBVIOUSLY have internet. Via VOIP, many, MANY persons have already "cutoff" AT&T and yet they still have that "home" and "office" "landline" phone that does not NEED to use AT&Ts copper lines and thus AT&T has been losing "landline" customers at a consistent large amount for well over the last decade and, as a result, AT&T (and Verizon and etc.) are left with copper landline as a small niche product that they are "stuck with" as AT&T, Verizon, etc. make their OVERWHELMING revenue and profits from cellular and internet and various other DIGITAL communications. THAT is why AT&T wants out of the copper landline; Verizon is even further along in ditching their legacy copper landlines and selling off their mainly east coast lines to others...... AND THAT'S WHERE YOU HAVE HOPE IN THAT MAYBE, MAYBE AT&T will sell their copper lines to another communication carrier that will take over the AT&T copper assets and keep them going........BUT I WOULD NOT COUNT ON THAT HAPPENING.....

How about a class action lawsuit against all the phone providers who neglected to inform their new customers that VOIP is not the same as a landline? Many would not have switched away from ATT had they known.

@@madge2114 Ever hear the old saying: "Buyer Beware". May not be entirely applicable in this case. But the VOIP products *do explain* it does not have the capability of landlines. I think it is a lot of people buying, and ignoring thw warning or not comprehending the warnings. I think the class action suit will fail. You know what is disappointing? When we deployed Internet 1.0 we though we would enable better decsions making by people all over the world. By enabling easier acceess to data, logic, and solutions. We were wrong. People are now more emotional, and actually know less.

Burner phone! Don't you watch Law & Order SVU? :-)

Whose money "is about to run out"?

That is irrelevant to the subject at hand.

And, THAT is what's going to happen if the landlines stay. If, in the remote chance the CPUC forces AT&T to keep the landline services going, GUARANTEED that AT&T will DEMAND and WILL GET a HUGE rate hike for the condition of keeping the landline service. AT&T's landline service is NOW a monies losing "small niche" service for AT&T that, along with Verizon, OVERWHELMINGLY gets their revenues and profits from cellular service and other digital communications....... and by policy no government agency can FORCE a private enterprise to keep operating at losses indefinitely...... thus AT&T will DEMAND AND GET a huge rate hike to keep the landline service going.

No you won't

You can go AND TRY to get the most expensive corporate law firm to represent you but YOU WILL LOSE IN COURT...... and NO law firm/lawyer would even bother with you as they would laugh at you for even wanting to file the suit.

I would argue your comments. Your right I won't do anything but there are elderly people and those with disabilities who rely on landline phones. Taking that ability away just to save a few bucks would be discriminating these groups of people and maybe a law firm would consider representing them in court vs ATT.

@bitemyshinnymetalass1569 they can get phone through fiber, thats the companies whole point