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.

Visit the International Bureau for discontinuance of international service.

2024

3/8/2024

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

Applicant(s):   TDS Metrocom, LLC

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 24-220 Docket No. 24-46 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1894

1/30/2024

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

Applicant(s):  CTSI, LLC d/b/a Frontier Communications CTSI, LLC, HCI Telcom, Inc. d/b/a Hubris Communications and d/b/a IdeaTek (HCI), Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc.; Global Crossing Local Services, Inc., and Global Crossing Telemanagement VA, LLC (Global Crossing)

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 24-84 Docket Nos. 23-422, 24-22, 24-23 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1887, 1888, 1889

1/26/2024

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

Applicant(s):  Blueface US, LLC

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 24-75 Docket No. 23-375 Comp Pol. File No. 1873

1/12/2024

PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Section 214 Application To Grandfather Domestic Legacy Voice Services

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

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 24-43 Docket No. 23-400 Comp Pol. File No. 1881

1/12/2024

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

Applicant(s):  AT&T Services, Inc., on behalf of its affiliates, AT&T Services, Inc., on behalf of its affiliate BellSouth Telecommunications,
LLC, d/b/a AT&T Florida and AT&T Tennessee and AT&T Services, Inc. on behalf of its affiliates

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 24-42 Docket Nos. 23-397, 23-398 and 23-399 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1878, 1879 and 1880

1/9/2024

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

Applicant(s):  Level 3 Telecom of Minnesota, LLC

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 24-22 Docket No. 23-421 Comp Pol. File No. 1886

1/5/2024

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

Applicant(s):  Level 3 Telecom of North Carolina, LP and Level 3 Telecom of Kansas City, LLC

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 24-14 Docket Nos. 23-393 and 23-394 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1876 and 1877

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