Copper phone line retirement report: December 2025
In December 2025, the FCC published notice of 3 filings to stop copper phone service, from 2 phone companies. They cover 1,706 telephone exchanges we track in 16 states, 158 of them in a filing for the first time.
The numbers
- Filings
- 3
- Exchanges covered
- 1,706
- First time in a filing
- 158
- States with exchanges covered
- 16
10 of these exchanges are named in a filing. 1,699 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AT&T | 2 | 1,706 | AL, AR, FL, GA, KS, KY, LA, MI, MO, MS, NC, OK, TN, TX, WI |
| Lumen (CenturyLink) | 1 | 0 | MN |
The filings
AT&T, FCC docket 25-335
Home and business phone lines on the copper network in in portions of certain wire centers in AT&T’s ILEC footprint in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin.
Public notice December 3, 2025; date in the filing November 15, 2026. Covers 1,703 exchanges we track.
AT&T, FCC docket 25-346
Home and business phone lines on the copper network in in portions of the following AT&T wire centers: Hot Springs, AR (HTSPARCO); Midland, TX (MDLDTXMU); Paragould, AR (PRGLARCE); San Antonio, TX (SNANTXFR); Tulsa Owasso, OK (TULSOKOW); and Wellington, KS (WGTNKSNF).
Public notice December 15, 2025; date in the filing April 1, 2026. Covers 6 exchanges we track.
Lumen (CenturyLink), FCC docket 25-350
Plain Old Telephone Services also known as “POTS” and Primary Rate Interface Service in Bloomington, Chanhassen, Chaska, Duluth, Eden Prairie, Plymouth, Shakopee, and St. Louis Park, Minnesota.
Public notice December 19, 2025; date in the filing March 26, 2026.
Dates in December 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.
- December 26, 2025: Highline Internet, docket 25-300 (CO, GA, KS, NE, TX)
Other services
5 other filings this month were for services other than ordinary copper phone lines (VoIP products, data circuits, long distance): RingCentral MiCloud & Sky (25-332), AT&T (25-333), AT&T (25-334), AT&T (25-336), AT&T (25-337).
Running total
Through December 2025: 69 copper phone line filings with an FCC public notice, covering 3,111 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.