Important Steps for Consumers and Companies When Service is Ending

  • You are a consumer and your phone company mailed you a letter informing you that it plans to discontinue your service soon.  What should you do?  Answer
  • You run or represent a phone company that is planning to discontinue domestic telecommunications service.  What must you do to comply with FCC rules? Answer 
  • You are an attorney or a trustee in a bankruptcy case involving a discontinuance of domestic telecommunications service. What do you need to know? Answer
Domestic Discontinuances
 

Application Filing Fees:  Please see this link for updated information about filing fees that must accompany each application.

Below are public notices soliciting comment on applications by carriers planning to discontinue domestic telecommunications service.  Consumers and others need information in these public notices to file comments  on a proposed discontinuance.  Any filings for the emergency discontinuance, reduction or impairment of domestic services are also included below.

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2/26/2025

PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Section 214 Application(s) To Discontinue Domestic Non-Dominant Carrier Telecommunications

Applicant(s): Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc.; Global Crossing Local Services, Inc.; and Global Crossing Telemanagement VA, LLC

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 25-171 Docket No. 25-105 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1992

2/26/2025

PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Section 214 Application(s) To Discontinue Domestic Non-Dominant Carrier Telecommunications Services As Part Of A Technology Transition

Applicant(s): Consolidated Communications of Minnesota Company

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 25-170 Docket No. 25-104 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1991

2/20/2025

PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Section 214 Application(s) To Discontinue Domestic Non-Dominant Carrier Telecommunications And/Or Interconnected VOIP Services

Applicant(s): Biddeford Internet Corp. d/b/a Great Works Internet, Mitel Cloud Services, Inc. and One Ring Networks, Inc.

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 25-151 Docket Nos. 25-16, 25-43 and 25-83 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1975, 1982 and 1989

2/20/2025

PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Section 214 Application(s) To Discontinue Domestic Non-Dominant Carrier Telecommunications Services

Applicant(s): Fulton Telephone Company, Inc., Mound Bayou Telephone & Communications, Bruce Telephone Company, Inc., and Chickamauga Telephone Corporation d/b/a Arriva

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 25-150 Docket No. 25-29 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1979

2/18/2025

PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Section 214 Application(s) To Discontinue Domestic Non-Dominant Carrier Telecommunications Services As Part Of A Technology Transition

Applicant(s): Consolidated Communications of Northern New England Company, LLC d/b/a Consolidated Communications (Consolidated Communications

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 25-140 Docket Nos. 24-698 and 25-82 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1968 and 1988

2/4/2025

PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Section 214 Application(s) To Grandfather Domestic Non-Dominant Carrier Telecommunications Services And/Or Interconnected VOIP Services

Applicant(s): AT&T Services, Inc., on behalf of its affiliates

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 25-102 Docket No. 25-48 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1987

2/4/2025

PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Section 214 Application(s) To Grandfather Domestic Non-Dominant Carrier Telecommunications Services And/Or Interconnected VOIP Services

Applicant(s): AT&T Services, Inc., on behalf of its affiliates

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 25-101 Docket No. 25-45, 25-46 and 25-47 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1984, 1985 and 1986

1/28/2025

PUBLIC NOTICE:  AT&T Files Network Performance Test Plan In Connection With Planned Section 63.71 Technology Transition Discontinuance Application

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 25-92 Docket No. 25-25 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1978

1/17/2025

PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Section 214 Application(s) To Discontinue Domestic Non-Dominant Carrier Telecommunications Services

Applicant(s): Level 3 Telecom of New York, LP

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 25-69 Docket No. 24-592 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1961

1/14/2025

PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Section 214 Application(s) To Discontinue Domestic Non-Dominant Carrier Telecommunications Services

Applicant(s): Network Innovations, LLC d/b/a Nitel

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 25-38 Docket No. 25-1 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1971

1/13/2025

PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Section 214 Application(s) To Discontinue Domestic Non-Dominant Carrier Telecommunications Services

Applicant(s): Frontier Telecommunications Company of California, Inc.; Frontier California, Inc.; and Frontier Communications of the Southwest, Inc. (Frontier)

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 25-37 Docket No. 24-707 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1970

1/8/2025

PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Section 214 Application(s) To Discontinue Domestic Non-Dominant Carrier Telecommunications Services

Applicant(s): Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc; Global Crossing Local Services, Inc.; and Global Crossing Telemanagement VA, LLC (Global Crossing)

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 25-24 Docket No. 24-595 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1965

1/7/2025

PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Section 214 Application(s) To Discontinue Domestic Non-Dominant Carrier Telecommunications Services And/Or Interconnected VOIP Services

Applicant(s): Whistle Phone, LLC (Whistle Phone)

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 25-13 Docket No. 24-594 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1964

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