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4 thoughts on “Massive AT&T Cell Phone Outage 2/22/2024”
This article is relevant to the CPUC meeting today about AT&T requesting to give up its responsibility as Carrier of Last Resort, which means it no longer wants to maintain land lines so folks have the ability to communicate, including during emergencies. Here is my statement:
Dear CPUC, I urge you to deny AT&T’s request to relinquish their responsibility as the COLR. In accordance with the CPUC’s own rules, AT&T must demonstrate that another ETC provider can provide universal support in the areas where AT&T wishes to surrender its ETC designation. However, I called them all and for my area the designated ETCs in the AT&T document are unable to provide adequate alternative services. My attempts to set up alternate service with these providers have been unsuccessful. All options presented significant limitations or obstacles to providing alternative services.
Additionally, I am concerned about the potential privacy and health implications of advanced technologies such as 5G, as well as AT&T’s history of cooperation with government surveillance efforts. It is essential to be aware that an advanced technology can have multiple different uses. For example, communications emissions have been used to accurately detect body poses of people within buildings. Google “Dense Pose” if you doubt this.
Finally, there was a massive wireless outage today, leaving over 70,000 AT&T cellular customers connectionless, a cosmic coincidence which demonstrates that wireless is NOT a valid replacement for wired landlines which are a life line for many people in rural areas.
I urge the CPUC to prioritize the well-being and privacy of California residents by carefully considering the implications of AT&T’s request. Please hold AT&T accountable for meeting its obligations as the COLR. Thank you.
I agree that AT&T should not be allowed to skip out on being the Carrier of Last Resort without not only naming *possible* alternatives, but I think they must legally provide a verified capable alternative.
I was at this meeting in Ukiah today. People were overwhelmingly unconvinced about AT&Ts assurances that no one would be left without service. They gave people only 2 minutes each and had over 100 people on the list for the first of two public comment sessions.
This article is relevant to the CPUC meeting today about AT&T requesting to give up its responsibility as Carrier of Last Resort, which means it no longer wants to maintain land lines so folks have the ability to communicate, including during emergencies. Here is my statement:
Dear CPUC, I urge you to deny AT&T’s request to relinquish their responsibility as the COLR. In accordance with the CPUC’s own rules, AT&T must demonstrate that another ETC provider can provide universal support in the areas where AT&T wishes to surrender its ETC designation. However, I called them all and for my area the designated ETCs in the AT&T document are unable to provide adequate alternative services. My attempts to set up alternate service with these providers have been unsuccessful. All options presented significant limitations or obstacles to providing alternative services.
Additionally, I am concerned about the potential privacy and health implications of advanced technologies such as 5G, as well as AT&T’s history of cooperation with government surveillance efforts. It is essential to be aware that an advanced technology can have multiple different uses. For example, communications emissions have been used to accurately detect body poses of people within buildings. Google “Dense Pose” if you doubt this.
Finally, there was a massive wireless outage today, leaving over 70,000 AT&T cellular customers connectionless, a cosmic coincidence which demonstrates that wireless is NOT a valid replacement for wired landlines which are a life line for many people in rural areas.
I urge the CPUC to prioritize the well-being and privacy of California residents by carefully considering the implications of AT&T’s request. Please hold AT&T accountable for meeting its obligations as the COLR. Thank you.
Great. Thanks for covering this, Cosmo. Here’s the link to your article:
https://newsi8.com/public-message-to-att-california-at-cpuc-meeting-is-clear-maintain-our-landlines/
I agree that AT&T should not be allowed to skip out on being the Carrier of Last Resort without not only naming *possible* alternatives, but I think they must legally provide a verified capable alternative.
I was at this meeting in Ukiah today. People were overwhelmingly unconvinced about AT&Ts assurances that no one would be left without service. They gave people only 2 minutes each and had over 100 people on the list for the first of two public comment sessions.