AT&T is on a mission to build out its national fiber-to-the-home footprint and wants to forsake copper DSL, but it will have to wait on that endeavor in California.
At a meeting last week, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) voted to deny AT&T’s request to be released from its duties as the state’s “carrier of last resort” (COLR), and urged the company to upgrade copper facilities to fiber instead of trying to shut down the outdated parts of its network.
