Deregulation to Blame for AT&T Ending DSL, Say PK, CWA
Broadband deregulation led to AT&T discontinuing DSL without committing to provide an alternative in areas where it doesn’t already have fiber, said consumer and worker groups Wednesday. The carrier’s action shows the FCC would be wrong to reaffirm, when commissioners…
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meet Oct. 27, the 2017 net neutrality decision to reclassify broadband as a Communications Act Title I information service, wrote Public Knowledge, Communications Workers of America, the National Digital Inclusion Alliance, Next Century Cities, Common Cause and The Greenlining Institute in docket 17-108. The groups attached an internal AT&T document, obtained by CWA, that they said showed DSL termination “will leave some unknown number of DSL subscribers without an available terrestrial, fixed broadband to the home option.” Other DSL carriers will likely follow AT&T, leading to millions with no fixed terrestrial alternative, they said. AT&T said last week that current DSL customers will keep service and the carrier will continue to expand fiber and wireless services (see 2010080066). AT&T provided an identical statement Wednesday. A Mississippi utility commissioner asked for an investigation (see 2010080055). Commissioners would vote Oct. 27 on the FCC response to the remand from U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Mozilla v. FCC (see 2010090050).