{"id":1009071,"date":"2026-05-22T08:17:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009071"},"modified":"2026-05-22T08:27:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:57:39","slug":"att-sues-california-in-bid-to-stop-offering-traditional-copper-wire-phone-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/22\/att-sues-california-in-bid-to-stop-offering-traditional-copper-wire-phone-service\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T sues California in bid to stop offering traditional copper wire phone service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: AT&amp;T on Wednesday filed suit against California officials seeking a court order declaring it does not have to continue offering traditional copper wire phone service to new customers as it vowed to spend $19 billion on modern telecom services. <\/p>\n<p>California requires \u200cthe U.S. \u2060wireless carrier \u2060to spend $1 billion annually to maintain a century-old telephone network that few use, AT&amp;T said, saying the network now serves just 3% of households in AT&amp;T&#8217;s California territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: AT&amp;T on Wednesday filed suit against California officials seeking a court order declaring it does not have to continue offering traditional copper wire phone service to new customers as it vowed to spend $19 billion on modern telecom services. California requires \u200cthe U.S. \u2060wireless carrier \u2060to spend $1 billion annually to maintain a century-old telephone network that few use, AT&amp;T said, saying the network now serves just 3% of households in AT&amp;T&#8217;s California territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009085,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009071\/revisions\/1009085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}