Copper phone line retirement report: November 2025
In November 2025, the FCC published notice of 3 filings to stop copper phone service, from 1 phone company. They cover 6 telephone exchanges we track in 4 states, 2 of them in a filing for the first time.
The numbers
- Filings
- 3
- Exchanges covered
- 6
- First time in a filing
- 2
- States with exchanges covered
- 4
By phone company
| Phone company | Filings | Exchanges covered | States with exchanges covered |
|---|---|---|---|
| AT&T | 3 | 6 | KS, KY, TX, WI |
The filings
AT&T, FCC docket 25-327
Legacy voice service called AT&T Residential Local Service in in portions of the following AT&T wire centers: Bowling Green, KY (BWLGKYMA), Colby, KS (CLBYKS05), Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX (CYPRTXCY), De Pere, WI (DEPRWI11), Stilwell, KS (KSCYKSST), Liberty Hill, TX (LBHLTXLH), and Nacogdoches, TX (NCGDTXNC) in Kansas, Kentucky, Texas and Wisconsin.
Public notice November 24, 2025; date in the filing March 3, 2026. Covers 5 exchanges we track.
AT&T, FCC docket 25-314
Home and business phone lines on the copper network in in portions of its DLLSTXRN wire center, located in Richardson, TX.
Public notice November 19, 2025; date in the filing February 15, 2026. Covers 1 exchange we track.
AT&T, FCC docket 25-326
Legacy Voice Service called AT&T Residential Local Service in in a small portion of Collin County outside of McKinney, TX.
Public notice November 21, 2025; date in the filing February 1, 2026.
Dates in November 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.
- November 12, 2025: Consolidated Communications, docket 25-256, 107 exchanges (VT)
- November 12, 2025: Consolidated Communications, docket 25-257, 295 exchanges (ME, NH)
- November 24, 2025: Lumen (CenturyLink), docket 25-259 (AL, MN, TN)
Other services
2 other filings this month were for services other than ordinary copper phone lines (VoIP products, data circuits, long distance): AT&T (25-313), AT&T (25-315).
Running total
Through November 2025: 66 copper phone line filings with an FCC public notice, covering 2,954 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.