Enlarge / A CenturyLink service van parked in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on May 2, 2019. reader comments 127 with 98 posters participating Share this story CenturyLink is selling large portions of its copper network in 20 states to a private-equity firm, letting the telco pull out of rural areas where it doesn’t plan to… Read More »
reader comments 61 with 49 posters participating Share this story AT&T and Frontier have let their copper phone networks deteriorate through neglect since 2010, resulting in poor service quality and many lengthy outages, a report commissioned by the California state government found. Customers in low-income areas and areas without substantial competition have fared the worst,… Read More »
reader comments 58 with 51 posters participating, including story author Share this story A man who has been an AT&T customer since 1960 has a message for CEO John Stankey about the company’s failure to upgrade DSL areas to modern Internet service. Aaron Epstein, 90, is so frustrated by his 3Mbps Internet plan that he… Read More »
Getty IMages | Synergee reader comments 153 with 99 posters participating Share this story AT&T has deployed fiber-to-the-home Internet to less than 30 percent of the households in its 21-state territory, according to a new report that says AT&T has targeted wealthy, non-rural areas in its fiber upgrades. The report, co-written by an AT&T workers… Read More »