The California Public Utilities Commission is reviewing an application from AT&T California that would allow the telecommunications giant to be relieved of its decades-old obligation to provide landline service in many regions across the state, including large swaths of Santa Cruz County.
Santa Cruz County officials told the Sentinel Monday the county was stepping in with short-term funding to ensure the system stays up and running and shared the same in a message to Big Basin customers on Friday using its emergency communications platform, Cruz Aware.