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Southeast Inyo residents urge county to press CPUC after widespread AT&T landline failures
Summary
Residents at an Inyo County field meeting described multi-week AT&T landline outages that have left medically vulnerable people without reliable 911 access, and asked supervisors to file complaints with the California Public Utilities Commission and consider a board resolution demanding carrier compliance.
Residents of southeast Inyo County told supervisors they have endured months of landline outages and what they described as broken repair promises from AT&T, leaving some households without a dependable way to contact emergency services.
At the start of the public-comment period, one resident, thanked in the meeting as Robin, said her home lost service and technicians never showed up despite repeated calls. "I leave my medically fragile husband at home with no way to contact emergency services if something goes wrong," she said. Tony Kazane, who identified himself at the microphone,…
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