https://www.fierce-network.com/broadband/att-now-making-headway-its-copper-retirement-plan
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@ak True, but actually SBC should never have bought Pacific Telesis in 1996. Early Consumer Broadband adoption in 1998 was attractive but Regulators, high operations costs, and snowflake consumer advocate groups have been a drain for 30 years. If you ever read anything in HR materials, California employees always get an asterisk for special handling.
Just let the tweakers know where the copper is and it'll be gone soon.
Frontier picked up non core market assets. AT&T divested of their non core markets too.
Perhaps. Seems that Frontier bought those assets in order to get the fiber assets and to convert the copper to fiber. Execution was terrible and drove them into bankruptcy. That allowed them to clean up their balance sheet and free up money to jumpstart that conversion which seems to be going well.
But it’s still facing state pushback, namely from California
That's where they messed up. Back around 2010, they should have been offloading as much California copper as they could to companies like Frontier, etc.