Phone & Broadband Protection
Phone and broadband are basic needs in our digital era.
Phone and broadband access are the backbone of public safety, quality education, and economic opportunity. Families seeking jobs need reliable connectivity, students require stable connections to learn, and communities rely on these tools to thrive.
TURN is committed to ensuring affordable phone and broadband services are available to every resident in California.
Help us strengthen these protections: explore our campaigns below and take action today.
2026 Telecom Bills
LIMIT DATA CENTER COSTS
SB 886 (Padilla): Requires all data centers to cover 100% of their costs for building new transmission and distribution power lines, developing new substations, and procuring additional energy supply. SB 886 sets a special data center tariff to minimize harmful cost shifts to residential, agricultural, small business, and industrial customers.
SB 887 (Padilla): Provides incentives to data centers that choose to pay the full cost of connecting tothe electrical grid, procure 100% clean energy, develop zero-carbon backup power, use recycled water, and cut back on energy use when needed. SB 887 incentivizes data centers to be good actors by making them eligible for expedited permitting if they meet high clean energy standards.
PROTECT BASIC PHONE SERVICE: OPPOSE AT&T
AB 2443 (McKinnor): Empowers AT&T and other telephone companies to abandon their obligation to provide basic phone service, eliminating the landline phone network that millions of rural, urban residents and businesses depend upon for reliable connections to family and others in case of emergencies, on a regular basis. AB 2443 permits telephone companies to abandon landline phone service, even when cell service is unreliable.