Fw: LANDLINE-SAVING comments to FCC due now
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📞📞📞Critical Action Needed by Monday, June 15
Please help protect landlines from reckless Federal Communications Commission action
AT&T has petitioned the FCC to discontinue landline service. We must oppose this move to override long-established California state provisions that protect customer safety and well-being.
We face a critical JUNE 15 deadline for filing comments to the FCC. (Two docket filings are due now (June 15) and two related filings are due June 22. (You may submit the same comments by June 15 for all four dockets.) IINSTRUCTIONS below.
😲Yes, the following could happen: The FCC will authorize discontinuance of service "unless it is shown that customers would be unable to receive service or a reasonable substitute from another carrier or that public convenience and needs are otherwise adversely affected... "
If preemption of state regulations is FCC authorized, AT&T plans to end landline service to existing customers by July 2027. Some customers have already received notices from AT&T saying this discontinuance of service will take effect pending FCC approval!
🏃🤸Action: TODAY, TOMORROW OR MONDAY by 5 p.m. please submit simultaneous comments to four FCC dockets. Hundreds of comments are needed. INSTRUCTIONS below on how to file.
Comments should include specific information about the impact of this proposed discontinuance (or reduction or impairment) upon you or your business, including any inability to acquire reasonable substitute service. Over a million Californians depend on the reliability, safety and voice quality of landlines because cell service is inadequate in their area or they are unable to tolerate wireless emissions. To date, copper landline connectivity remains the superior technology in homes, businesses, schools, government, etc.
Talking points ideas (or give your own story/circumstances):
- Copper landlines work in emergencies when power is out.
- Cell phone networks didn't work in CA fire disasters but landlines did.
- Battery back-ups for modems and routers (needed for cable and fiber optic connections) are unreliable.
- Cell phone connections have cyber security risks.
- Many human bodies are not compatible with wireless technology. People get headaches, ear ringing, vertigo, nerve disruptions, cancers, and more.
- People in remote or rural areas rely on copper landlines.
- Copper landlines work with DSL, medical alert systems and alarm/security systems.
- Customers have been paying extra fees in their phone bill for years to maintain copper landlines.
- Landlines are lifelines!
- AT&T claims people are abandoning landlines, but many AT&T service reps are telling customers AT&T no longer services copper and they won't install landlines anymore.
📞No matter what type of phone one prefers, this action is about preserving protections and choice. AT&T hopes to completely skirt regulation.
HOW TO FILE FCC COMMENTS:
Go here: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express to complete simple form.
- Proceeding(s): Type 26-120; scroll to click below for the orange highlight on the number 26-120, then type 26-121; click again below for the orange highlight. Type 26-123, then 26-125)
- Name of filer: your name.
- Primary contact email: your email address (not required).
- Address:(required) Four-digit ZIP code extension means just the four digits that sometimes follow your ZIP)
- Brief comments: Either type in your comments or paste your previously-prepared comments into the box.
- Press Continue to review screen.
- If okay, submit your comments.
Print confirmation page for your records if you choose.
Thank you for spending a few minutes with this message, and for taking this critical action to preserve landlines.📞
Note: Standard filing is good for organizations, groups or to preserve a document's format
Go here: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/standard
To learn more:
Check out TURN’s (The Utility Reform Network’s) ALERT. https://www.turn.org/landline-defense-team
Note: We suggest signing TURN’s petitions, but it doesn’t take the place of filing your own comments to FCC dockets 26-120, 26-121, 26-123, and 26-125. This docket-filing submission is most important right now.
