Copper is being retired, market by market. Know if yours is one of them.
Carriers announce copper retirement through public notices: by state, by wire center, by service. Critical Line tracks those announcements from official carrier sources and maps them against your properties.
Current carrier activity.
Summarized from official carrier disclosures. Timelines vary by service and location. We verify before recommending a migration.
Has stated it intends to exit copper in the majority of its wireline footprint by the end of 2029, with customer upgrades and legacy-service discontinuation underway in portions of its footprint since summer 2026.
- Notices
- 817
- States
- 21
- Next effective
- SEP 9
Publishing location-specific 2026 copper-retirement notices across multiple states through its public disclosure pages.
- Notices
- 691
- States
- 24
- Next effective
- OCT 28
Its disclosure repository contains a dense succession of 2026 copper-retirement announcements across its footprint.
- Notices
- 362
- States
- 22
- Next effective
- SEP 14
Filing copper-retirement notices concentrated in the Pacific Northwest as it converts its footprint to fiber.
- Notices
- 129
- States
- 1
- Next effective
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A retirement notice is not the same as a disconnection.
Network-change and copper-retirement events are different from actual service-discontinuance events. A notice for your market does not by itself establish that your specific line will be disconnected.
What it does establish: the window to identify your dependencies is closing. A Critical Line Assessment verifies the actual service and dependency before anything is changed.
- 01Which carriers serve each property, and on what services
- 02Whether any notice names your state, market or wire center
- 03Which critical endpoints ride on the affected services
- 04What deadlines, inspections or rate changes are attached
- 05Which migrations need to happen first, and who must be involved
Is my market affected?
We'll help translate what a notice means for your property.