{"id":1015751,"date":"2026-06-20T07:51:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015751"},"modified":"2026-06-20T07:53:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:23:34","slug":"california-urges-court-fcc-to-rule-att-must-continue-basic-phone-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/20\/california-urges-court-fcc-to-rule-att-must-continue-basic-phone-service\/","title":{"rendered":"California urges court, FCC to rule AT&amp;T must continue basic phone service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: A California agency said on Thursday it has asked a U.S. court and the Federal Communications Commission to reject AT&amp;T&#8217;s request to stop offering traditional copper wire phone service to new customers. The California Public Utilities Commission said AT&amp;T was trying to get out of \u200cits obligations as \u2060a \u2060carrier of last resort and to ensure basic service. <\/p>\n<p>The state agency said in a court filing its rules &#8220;are explicitly technology-neutral; it does not matter whether the carrier uses copper wire, wireless, Voice over Internet Protocol, or any other type of technology, so long as it meets the standard for &#8216;basic service.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: A California agency said on Thursday it has asked a U.S. court and the Federal Communications Commission to reject AT&amp;T&#8217;s request to stop offering traditional copper wire phone service to new customers. The California Public Utilities Commission said AT&amp;T was trying to get out of \u200cits obligations as \u2060a \u2060carrier of last resort and to ensure basic service. The state agency said in a court filing its rules &#8220;are explicitly technology-neutral; it does not matter whether the carrier uses copper wire, wireless, Voice over Internet Protocol, or any other type of technology, so long as it meets the standard [&hellip;]<\/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-1015751","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\/1015751","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=1015751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015764,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015751\/revisions\/1015764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}