Copper phone line retirement report: January 2025
In January 2025, the FCC published notice of 2 filings to stop copper phone service, from 2 phone companies. They cover 0 telephone exchanges we track in 6 states.
The numbers
- Filings
- 2
- Exchanges covered
- 0
- First time in a filing
- 0
- States with exchanges covered
- 6
By phone company
| Phone company | Filings | Exchanges covered | States with exchanges covered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitel | 1 | 0 | IL, IN, MA, NY, WA |
| Great Works Internet | 1 | 0 | ME |
The filings
Nitel, FCC docket 25-1
Legacy analog voice services (i.e., Plain Old Telephone Services, or "POTS") in Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, New York, and Washington.
Public notice January 6, 2025; date in the filing February 14, 2025.
Great Works Internet, FCC docket 25-16
Local exchange service, domestic long distance service, toll free service, and internet access service6 in Maine.
Public notice January 17, 2025; date in the filing March 31, 2025.
Dates in January 2025
Filings whose requested date falls this month. A date in a filing is when the phone company asked to stop service, not proof that it has.
- January 9, 2025: Level 3 (Lumen), docket 24-448 (TX)
Other services
2 other filings this month were for services other than ordinary copper phone lines (VoIP products, data circuits, long distance): Fulton Telephone (25-29), Mitel Cloud Services (25-43).
Running total
Through January 2025: 26 copper phone line filings with an FCC public notice, covering 2,264 telephone exchanges we track. See the full timeline or browse by state and town.
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How we count
- A month's filings are the ones whose FCC public notice is dated that month.
- State counts are the states where we track exchanges a filing covers. A filing can list more states than that, for example where the company is not the local phone company.
- An exchange is a telephone exchange (rate center) with a town page on this site. Some filings name exchanges or wire centers; others cover portions of a state without listing places, and we count the exchanges in those areas separately.
- A filing is a request. The phone company has to notify affected customers in writing before it changes their service.
- Sources: FCC public notices and the Electronic Comment Filing System, linked from each filing page. This product uses FCC APIs and/or Data but is not endorsed or certified by the FCC.
Data as of November 2, 2026, from FCC public notices. Not legal or regulatory advice.