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p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>Once upon a time, I attended Linux meetings at O'Reilly's, perl meetings in Santa Rosa, and Mac meetings in Rohnert Park.<br></div><div><br></div><div>At that time one or more members of nblug were employees at sonic.net<br></div><div><br></div><div>This post isn't relevant to linux, but it a post that would interest geeks in California, especially geeks, who work for or did work for sonic.net, so please don't <br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>$ rm -rf *</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do you know anything about this?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Have you received any email about R2203016 or "<b>Rulemaking 22-03-016</b> to the CPUC"?<br></div><div><br></div><div>I live in the north end of Novato. Our phone and Internet service has always been different than the rest of Novato and rest of Marin County. We have a Frontier landline (POTS = Plain Old Telephone Service). Sonic.net in Santa Rosa does not service north Novato because of the Frontier central office is different than the central offices in the rest of Northern California (former PacBell).<br></div><div><br></div><div>We got the below cryptic email because we have a Frontier landline POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service).<br></div><div><br></div><div>With a little googling I found the CPUC (California Public Utilities Commision) Facebook page, which states:<br></div><div>California Public Utilities Commission<br></div><div>November 7 at 2:45 pm<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>We will hold remote public forums on Dec. 6 at 6 p.m. and Dec. 8 at 1 p.m. to provide an opportunity for customers of various telephone, mobile voice, and Voice over the Internet Protocol (VoIP) service providers to offer their input to the CPUC regarding their quality of voice services: <a href="https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/…/cpuc-to-hold-public-forums-on-tel…">https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/…/cpuc-to-hold-public-forums-on-tel…</a><br></div><div>Comment online if you can’t join us: <a href="https://apps.cpuc.ca.gov/c/R2203016">https://apps.cpuc.ca.gov/c/R2203016</a><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>If you google: CPUC R2203016<br></div><div>it will take you to a webpage, whose headings say: Proceedings, Documents, Rulings, Decisions, Public Comment<br></div><div>If you click on the Public Comment tab, there are comments from all over California, complaining about cell phone and landline service from all companies, not just Frontier.<br></div><div><br></div><div>You can also copy and paste these links, be sure to include the funny ::: at the end of the link<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="https://apps.cpuc.ca.gov/apex/f?p=401:65:0::NO">https://apps.cpuc.ca.gov/apex/f?p=401:65:0::NO</a>:::<br></div><div><br></div><div>Go to: <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi2ppuUqa_7AhWLGzQIHSgwASIQFnoECBAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.cpuc.ca.gov%2Fp%2FR2203016&usg=AOvVaw3wTvPtcpIr-vlZgvBSAMp8">https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi2ppuUqa_7AhWLGzQIHSgwASIQFnoECBAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.cpuc.ca.gov%2Fp%2FR2203016&usg=AOvVaw3wTvPtcpIr-vlZgvBSAMp8</a><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>Any opinions?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Jim<br></div></div><div>----- Original message -----<br></div><div>From: Frontier <<a href="mailto:CustomerSupport@ftr.com">CustomerSupport@ftr.com</a>><br></div><div>To: <a href="mailto:oserj@oserconsulting.com">oserj@oserconsulting.com</a><br></div><div>Subject: California Voice Service Quality Public Participation Hearings<br></div><div>Date: Monday, November 14, 2022 9:49 AM<br></div><div><br></div><div type="cite" id="qt" style="background-color:rgb(229, 227, 227);"><div style="text-align:center;"><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana;"><span class="size" style="font-size:10px;">To view this email as a web page, <a href="https://hello.frontier.com/v/Njg2LUVUVC0xNzQAAAGIFjr0v3Dv7llt5Vd6LKwqJaH7infZji8H3vL8jsW6XzREYi5RduGqh2kDuOOzk-24DRjbrQA=">click here</a></span></span><br></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="600" align="center" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color:rgb(255, 0, 55);padding-top:10px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:0px;" colspan="2"><table border="0" width="600" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" class="qt-tableCollapse"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color:rgb(255, 0, 55);padding-top:5px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:40px;" valign="middle" class="qt-mktEditable" id="qt-Frontier-Logo"><a 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To submit a public comment about <b>Rulemaking 22-03-016</b> to the CPUC, go to <a href="https://hello.frontier.com/Njg2LUVUVC0xNzQAAAGIFjr0v6ymggzSnfXaumuE1NToAw6A2YeBbUMqcLEYDhYaUhN1CmkF1GRnpZgPhm0cPDXbJCI=" target="_blank" id="qt-">apps.cpuc.ca.gov/c/R2203016</a>. 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