Lumen (CenturyLink) phone lines in Fremont, NE

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What's changing with Lumen

Lumen says it is moving toward the end of sale of its voice and communications services for business, enterprise, wholesale and public sector customers, and is no longer proactively selling them. Its residential (Mass Markets) services are not part of this change.
Lumen says there is no immediate change to current service and that it doesn't have a decommissioning date yet; timing varies by product, state and contract.
On its second-quarter 2026 earnings call, Lumen's CFO said the company will be "aggressive" about end of life.
In March 2026 the FCC made it much easier for phone companies to retire copper lines.

Sources: Lumen's communication services page, Lumen's second-quarter call (Channel Dive) and the FCC's March 2026 order.

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Areas served by the Fremont exchange

Besides Fremont, the exchange serves Ames, Fontanelle, Inglewood and Nickerson.

ZIP codes: 68025. Exchange boundaries don't follow ZIP codes exactly, so check your phone number to be sure.

What usually runs on these lines

Fire alarm and security panels that dial out
Elevator emergency phones
Fax machines
Gate and call boxes
Card terminals and ATMs
Main business lines and phone systems

While you're moving off copper

Your phones

If your business phones are on CenturyLink or Lumen copper lines, this is a good time to move them to a cloud phone system. You keep your numbers, and calls ring on desk phones, computers and cell phones.

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Your internet

If your internet is DSL from CenturyLink or Lumen, it runs over the same copper. And once your phones and alarms run over the internet or cellular, an outage affects all of them. We compare the providers that serve your address, and can add cellular backup so things keep working when the line is down.

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Questions about Fremont, NE

Is Lumen retiring copper phone lines in Fremont, NE?

The Fremont exchange is served by Lumen (CenturyLink). No FCC filing names it yet, but Lumen says it is moving toward the end of sale of its business voice services and is no longer proactively selling them. No shutoff date has been announced for this exchange. Lumen has to notify customers before it changes their service.

How can I tell if my line in Fremont is affected?

Check the phone number with our free line check, which matches it to its telephone exchange and the FCC filings that cover it, and watch for a written notice from CenturyLink or Lumen. Filings that cover "portions" of a state don't list addresses, so the notice is the final word.

What happens to alarm, elevator and fax lines in Fremont?

Anything that runs on a copper line stops working when the line does, so it has to move first. Phones and fax usually move to business VoIP. Fire alarm panels, elevator phones, gates and similar equipment usually move to a cellular replacement such as Ooma AirDial, tested with your alarm or elevator company before the copper line is cancelled.

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Updated November 2, 2026 from public FCC filings and telephone exchange data. Not legal or regulatory advice.