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.

2023

6/9/2023

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

Applicant(s): TDS Metrocom, LLC

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 23-495 Docket No. 23-144  and 23-146 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1837 and 1839

5/30/2023

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

Applicant(s): CenturyLink of Florida, Inc.

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 23-461 Docket No. 23-155 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1843

5/26/2023

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

Applicant(s): Level 3 Telecom on behalf of its CLEC affiliates and Fusion Cloud Services, LLC and Fusion Telecom of Texas, Ltd., L.L.P.

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 23-454 Docket No. 23-139 and 23-154 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1836 and 1842

5/15/2023

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

Applicant(s): Level 3 Telecom of California, LP, a Lumen company and AT&T Services, Inc., on behalf of its affiliate, AT&T Corp. (AT&T)

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 23-413 Docket No. 23-111 and 23-148 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1835 and 1841

4/14/2023

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

Applicant(s): TDS Metrocom, LLC

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 23-326 Docket No. 23-136 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1831

4/4/2023

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

Applicant(s): Farmers Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc.

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 23-277 Docket No. 23-95 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1834

3/31/2023

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

Applicant(s): Farmers Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc.

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 23-277 Docket No. 23-95 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1834

3/14/2023

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

Applicant(s): Mitel Cloud Services, Inc. (Mitel) and AT&T Services, Inc., on behalf of its affiliates, Teleport Communications Group Operating Companies, Teleport Communications America, LLC, and TC Systems, Inc. (AT&T)

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 23-213 Docket No. 22-310 and 23-92 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1800 and 1832

3/10/2023

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

Applicant(s): Electric Lightwave, LLC dba Allstream

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 23-199 Docket No. 23-94 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1833

3/3/2023

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

Applicant(s): Level 3 Telecom of California, LP and Fusion Cloud Services, LLC and Fusion Telecom of Texas, Ltd., L.L.P

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 23-177 Docket No. 23-47 and 23-49 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1828 and 1830

2/17/2023

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

Applicant(s): TDS Metrocom, LLC

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 23-137 Docket No. 23-15 23-16 23-17 23-18 23-19 23-21 23-22 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1819, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825, and 1826

2/14/2023

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

Applicant(s): Fusion Cloud Services, LLC

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 23-127 Docket No. 23-32 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1827

1/13/2023

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

Applicant(s): Global Crossing Local Services, Inc., a Lumen company

Word | Acrobat | DA No. 23-36 Docket No. 23-20 Comp Pol. File Nos. 1824

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