AT&T’s recent moves to scrap traditional landlines have generated concern from some Bay Area elected leaders who are hoping to preserve what is perceived as a vital service in isolated mountain and coastal regions.

In remote regions where cellular service is spotty, landlines can be a lifeline in a crisis, according to San Mateo County Supervisor Ray Mueller. At the Feb. 27 Board of Supervisors meeting, he told the company to share specifics.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.