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

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

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