Copper phone line retirement in Washington
No FCC filing names a Washington exchange yet. Lumen (CenturyLink) stopped selling and renewing its business voice services on August 1, 2026. These 68 exchanges are Lumen's, and its CFO has said the company will be "aggressive" about ending those services.
Check a specific line- Aberdeen · Lumen
- Auburn · Lumen
- Bainbridge Island · Lumen
- Battle Ground · Lumen
- Belfair · Lumen
- Bellevue · Lumen
- Black Diamond · Lumen
- Bremerton · Lumen
- Buckley · Lumen
- Castle Rock · Lumen
- Centralia · Lumen
- Chehalis · Lumen
- Clarkston · Lumen
- Cle Elum · Lumen
- Colfax · Lumen
- Colville · Lumen
- Copalis · Lumen
- Coulee Dam · Lumen
- Crystal Mountain · Lumen
- Dayton · Lumen
- Deer Park · Lumen
- Des Moines · Lumen
- Elk-Greenbluff · Lumen
- Enumclaw · Lumen
- Ephrata · Lumen
- Graham · Lumen
- Hoodsport · Lumen
- Issaquah · Lumen
- Kent · Lumen
- Liberty Lake · Lumen
- Longview · Lumen
- Loon Lake · Lumen
- Maple Valley · Lumen
- Moses Lake · Lumen
- Newman Lake · Lumen
- Northport · Lumen
- Olympia · Lumen
- Omak · Lumen
- Oroville · Lumen
- Othello · Lumen
- Pasco · Lumen
- Pateros · Lumen
- Pomeroy · Lumen
- Port Angeles · Lumen
- Port Ludlow · Lumen
- Port Orchard · Lumen
- Port Townsend · Lumen
- Puyallup · Lumen
- Renton · Lumen
- Ridgefield · Lumen
- Rochester · Lumen
- Roy · Lumen
- Seattle · Lumen
- Shelton · Lumen
- Silverdale · Lumen
- Spokane · Lumen
- Springdale · Lumen
- Sumner · Lumen
- Tacoma · Lumen
- Tacoma-Waverly · Lumen
- Touchet · Lumen
- Vancouver · Lumen
- Waitsburg · Lumen
- Walla Walla · Lumen
- Warden · Lumen
- Whatcom County · Lumen
- Winlock · Lumen
- Yakima · Lumen
Sources: Lumen's voice pullback (Channel Dive), Lumen's second-quarter call (Channel Dive) and the FCC's March 2026 order.
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