There’s a public notice posted in regards to this,https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-25-322A1.docx It looks like multiple telephone providers are doing the same now after the FCC made changes in March to make it easier for companies to retire/grandfather products and put investments into the latest greatest technology
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It's about time!
This should have been mandatory 10 years ago.
Effective June 1, 2025, certain Competitive Local Exchange Carrier and Interexchange Carrier
affiliates of Lumen intend to grandfather the national private line services described in
Attachment A (the Affected Services) in all 50 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico, as well
as internationally.
1 You are receiving this notice because you may subscribe to one or more of
these services.
The Affected Services are point-to-point, dedicated, non-switched electrical or optical data
transmission services. They provide a fixed capacity of bandwidth for the transport of a
customer’s digital communications traffic over a physical circuit between two Company owned
and operated facilities on the Company Domestic Network (network). The services are offered
either on an interLATA, Inter-city (Long Haul) or Intra-city (Metro) basis for transport of the
customer’s interstate communications traffic, with a variety of speeds and features. They offer
transmission speeds ranging from the DS0 level up to and including Optical Carrier Network
(OCN) speeds. Circuits at DS0, DS1, Fractional DS1 up to 512 kbps, E1, DS3, E3, OC3/STM1,
OC12/STM4, OC48/STM16 and OC192/STM64 levels may be available between any two POP
locations.
Effective June 1, 2025, or as soon after that date as authorized by the Federal Communications
Commission, these services will no longer be available to new customers or for new orders from
existing customers.
Service to existing customers of these services will be grandfathered as follows:
• Orders to install new services for new or existing customers will no longer be accepted.
• Moves, Adds & Change Orders (MACs) will no longer be accepted.
• Only disconnects will be accepted.
• Customers with services under existing contracts will continue to be supported as
required until the expiration of the contract. Contracts will not be renewed.
• Service terms will expire at the end of the current applicable service term.
Link on title not working, this link does https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/10403117826000/1
https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/10403117826000/1