When they came for my typewriter and replaced it with a word processor, I mumbled but did not say anything.
When they snatched my vinyl LP and replaced them with the CD, I put my Sinatra albums in storage and bought their discs.
When the bookstores started closing, I built more shelves in my house and started my own book shop.
Now, AT and T wants to remove my landline, and I already say enough! Keep your hands with Maa Bell.
His rotary phones were our lifeline – our memories when you could stay in contact with the world with a phone, a newspaper and Walter Chroncite.
Today, I am paying approximately $ 400 per month to stay in touch with AT & T and Verizon, and there is no clue of what is happening.
If you miss it, AT&T wants out of old copper wire business that provides landline access to about 25% of families in California with still landline and a cell phone. It only falls to about 15% with landline.
With AT&T with speed and technology, you think they must have recited me with news, but they chose good, old, reliable snail mail to tell me. How is a shot of irony?
It is asking California Public Utilities Commission to provide landline phone service in a large part if its service sector in the state if its service sector in the state. My share.
If approved, AT and T will give us land lines six months before cutting the copper wires and we have to go to a private, irregular carrier to keep our landline. If no alternative voice services are available, it will hang until there are not there.
However, not so fast. I like the government keeping an eye on my phone bill. It keeps an eye on everything for me.
I still have an old rotary phone that I keep at the end of my desk for personal treatment. University of Number 6-3230.
Whenever I feel down or stressed, I stick to my ancestors in one of 10 holes – 9 on rotary dial, and 1 point through zero, and give it a round, raising the receiver between my chin and shoulder, as I used to do.
When you turn on the rotary dial, it clicks on familiar noise, which is a glass of chocolate milk and Oreo cookies for me. I am calling my high school friends and old girlfriends to my mind in the old neighborhood.
Maa Bell was hanging from our kitchen wall and sat on a side table in the living room in the 1950s when two-thirds of American houses had at least one rotary phone, thanks to the old copper wiring that now wants to cut.
Ma may not fit in our pocket or can do all the things that smart phones can do now, but somehow we did.
The calendar told us on which day it was and the watches told us time. Newspaper, TV and radio news put us in loop.
Ma could not check our messages or read our friends for lunch, but he gave us a great reception and we were asking all this. He never died in the middle of a call.
By the 1970s, Push button started replacing the rotary dial, and the medical clicking sound went away forever. By the 80s, most of the rotary phones were being phased out as Maa Bell sang her Swan song in 1984.
Today, when my cell phone rings in my house, it is a crazy dash for the window in my den where I get the only good reception in place and don’t lose the call.
When my landline rings, I take my time to answer it. It never loses a call.
Before taking a decision in April at the request of California Public Utilities Commission AT&T, it is asking for public comments.
Comments can be posted on a CPUC link: Tynyurl.com/yvp6FB7N
In addition, the California Public Utilities Commission is handling two-individual public forms-22 February in Kuia, and in Indio on 14 March.
A virtual meeting is to be held on 2 and 6 pm on March 19. Information about these meetings and other information on this issue on CPUC page here: tinyurl.com/yx9sv9zw
For more information about the issue of request of AT&T, online to get rid of its “carrier of the last resort” in some areas of California online: https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/attcolr
Or, better yet, call them on your landline at 866-849-8390.
For Ma Bell.
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