On Sat, 26 May 2001, Dan Paxton wrote:

Is anyone still experiencing FR outages in California thru PacBell/ASI??

Statement by PacBell issued on May 26 2001 at 12:14pm:

Customers in the California area may be unable to access the internet at this time. Our network engineering team is working hard to resolve this issue. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your patience.

So I would say PacBell is still having problems (or is having new problems).