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The State That Wouldn’t Hang Up: California’s Fight to Keep the Old Phone Network Alive
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The State That Wouldn’t Hang Up: California’s Fight to Keep the Old Phone Network Alive
In 1877, Thomas Doolittle strung the first hard-drawn copper telephone wire in Ansonia, Connecticut, replacing the iron lines that had carried Alexander Graham Bell’s earliest calls. Nearly 150 years later, most of the country is finally retiring the last copper in its telephone networks, replacing it with fiber-optic cable and wireless connectivity. California, naturally, has other ideas. Much of the state’s copper network remains in place—pow…
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