This is the correct answer and precisely what the CPUC told AT&T. "If you don't want to maintain that shit copper network, then upgrade it to fiber and everyon

This is the correct answer and precisely what the CPUC told AT&T. "If you don't want to maintain that shit copper network, then upgrade it to fiber and everyone's happy." But AT&T won't do that because bringing fiber to rural customers would eat into their margins. Consider the west side of the peninsula and south, and how much it would cost to trench or even string fiber to all these mountain forest homes (which have mostly all had copper for a century). 90% of AT&T's customers are packed neatly into 30% of the land area and 10% are spread across the 70% of the land area. Of course AT&T wants to ignore the expensive rural users and serve the lucrative town ones, and that's entirely what this now failed petition was about.