Copper phone line retirement report: February 2025
In February 2025, the FCC published notice of 4 filings to stop copper phone service, from 2 phone companies. They cover 132 telephone exchanges we track in 24 states, 12 of them in a filing for the first time.
The numbers
- Filings
- 4
- Exchanges covered
- 132
- First time in a filing
- 12
- States with exchanges covered
- 24
132 are in areas where a filing covers portions of a state without listing places, so not every address in them is included.
By phone company
| Phone company | Filings | Exchanges covered | States with exchanges covered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consolidated Communications | 3 | 132 | MN, NH |
| Global Crossing (Lumen) | 1 | 0 | AL, CO, DC, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, MI, MT, NC, NE, OR, VA, VT, WA, WI |
The filings
Consolidated Communications, FCC docket 25-82
Legacy Voice Service in 19 exchanges in New Hampshire.
Public notice February 7, 2025; date in the filing April 19, 2025. Covers 120 exchanges we track (portions of the state, not every address).
Consolidated Communications, FCC docket 25-109
Legacy Voice Service in in 18 exchanges in New Hampshire.
Public notice February 25, 2025; date in the filing May 13, 2025. Covers 120 exchanges we track (portions of the state, not every address).
Consolidated Communications, FCC docket 25-104
Copper phone service (legacy voice) in Le Sueur and Blue Earth Counties, Minnesota.
Public notice February 25, 2025; date in the filing April 1, 2025. Covers 12 exchanges we track (portions of the state, not every address).
Global Crossing (Lumen), FCC docket 25-105
Business copper phone services (business lines, PBX trunks, ISDN and similar) in Alabama, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oregon, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Public notice February 25, 2025; date in the filing June 24, 2025.
Dates in February 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.
- February 8, 2025: Global Crossing (Lumen), docket 24-595 (CO, IL, IN, MI, MN, MO, OH, PA, more)
- February 13, 2025: Frontier, docket 24-707, 237 exchanges (CA, NV)
- February 14, 2025: Nitel, docket 25-1 (IL, IN, MA, NY, WA)
- February 19, 2025: Level 3 (Lumen), docket 24-592 (NY)
Other services
2 other filings this month were for services other than ordinary copper phone lines (VoIP products, data circuits, long distance): One Ring Networks (25-83), Everstream Solutions (25-100).
Running total
Through February 2025: 30 copper phone line filings with an FCC public notice, covering 2,276 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.