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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

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.

Visit the International Bureau for discontinuance of international service

2012

08/29/2012
PUBLIC NOTICE:Comments Invited On Application Of Citizens Long Distance Company To Discontinue Domestic Telecommunications Services
Word | Acrobat | DA No. 12-1417. WC Docket No 12-238. Comp Pol. File No. 1050.

08/17/2012
PUBLIC NOTICE:Comments Invited On Application Of Sigecom, LLC D/B/A WOW! Internet, Cable And Phone To Discontinue Domestic Telecommunications Services
Word | Acrobat | DA No. 12-1351. WC Docket No 12-226. Comp Pol. File No. 1048.

07/31/2012
PUBLIC NOTICE:Comments Invited On Application Of AT&T Services Inc. On Behalf Of AT&T Corp. To Discontinue Domestic Telecommunications Services
Word | Acrobat | DA No. 12-1225. WC Docket No 12-205. Comp Pol. File No. 1045.

07/26/2012
PUBLIC NOTICE:Comments Invited On Application Of Sigecom, Llc D/B/A Wow! Internet, Cable And Phone To Discontinue Domestic Telecommunications Services
Word | Acrobat | DA No. 12-1201. WC Docket No 12-204. Comp Pol. File No. 1047.

06/27/2012
PUBLIC NOTICE:Comments Invited On Application Of AT&T Services Inc. On Behalf Of AT&T Corp. To Discontinue Domestic Telecommunications Services
Word | Acrobat | DA No. 12-1009. WC Docket No 12-178. Comp Pol. File No. 1044.

06/15/2012
PUBLIC NOTICE:Comments Invited On Application Of AT&T Services, Inc. On Behalf Of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company D/B/A AT&T Southwest And The Southern New England Telephone Company D/B/A AT&T Connecticut To Discontinue Domestic Telecommunications Services
Word | Acrobat | DA No. 12-950. WC Docket No 12-154. Comp Pol. File No. 1043.

05/07/2012
PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Application Of Image Access, Inc. D/B/A NewPhone To Discontinue Domestic Telecommunications Services
Word | Acrobat | DA No. 12-723. WC Docket No 12-118. Comp Pol. File No. 1038.

04/30/2012
PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Application Of AT&T Services Inc. On Behalf Of At&T Corp. To Discontinue Domestic Telecommunications Services
Word | Acrobat | DA No. 12-686. WC Docket No 12-109. Comp Pol. File No. 1037.

04/27/2012
PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Application Of AT&T Services Inc. On Behalf Of BellSouth Telecommunications, LLC D/B/A AT&T Southeast To Discontinue Domestic Telecommunications Services
Word | Acrobat | DA No. 12-672. WC Docket No 12-104. Comp Pol. File No. 1036.

04/06/2012
PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Application Of Sigecom, LLC D/B/A WOW! Internet, Cable And Phone To Discontinue Domestic Telecommunications Services
Word | Acrobat | DA No. 12-554. WC Docket No 12-81. Comp Pol. File No. 1033.

03/30/2012
PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Application Of AT&T Services, Inc. On Behalf Of BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc.; Illinois Bell Telephone Company; Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Inc.; et al. To Discontinue Domestic Telecommunications Services
Word | Acrobat | DA No. 12-509. WC Docket No 12-79. Comp Pol. File No. 1035.

03/30/2012
PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Application Of AT&T Services, Inc. On Behalf Of BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc.; et al. To Discontinue Domestic Telecommunications Services
Word | Acrobat | DA No. 12-508. WC Docket No 12-78. Comp Pol. File No. 1034.

03/23/2012
PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Application Of NET/COMM Services Corp. To Discontinue Domestic Telecommunications Services
Word | Acrobat | DA No. 12-462. WC Docket No 12-72. Comp Pol. File No. 1031.

03/21/2012
PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Application Of TelePlus Telecommunications, Inc. To Discontinue Domestic Telecommunications Services
Word | Acrobat | DA No. 12-432. WC Docket No 12-67. Comp Pol. File No. 1032.

03/08/2012
PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Application Of MCI Communications Services, Inc. And Telecom*USA, Inc. To Discontinue Domestic Telecommunications Services
Word | Acrobat | DA No. 12-371. WC Docket No 12-62. Comp Pol. File No. 1030.

03/01/2012
PUBLIC NOTICE: Comments Invited On Application Of Midwestern Telecommunications, Inc. To Discontinue Domestic Telecommunications Services
Word | Acrobat | DA No. 12-329. WC Docket No 12-20. Comp Pol. File No. 1029.