Under the 2025 waiver, incumbent LECs still had to give public notice as soon as practicable, and communicate directly with interconnected providers, for network changes caused by force majeure or other events outside their control.

Checked 2026-10-02

Vendor
not restricted
Product
not restricted
Subsystem
copper-retirement-notice
Deployment
carrier-network
Region
us
Release range
2025-03-20 onward
Checked
2026-10-02

Sources

Cite this note

APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, October 2). POTS line replacement and copper retirement: source note pots-line-replacement-force-majeure-notice. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/pots-line-replacement-force-majeure-notice

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-pots-line-replacement-force-majeure-notice,
  title  = {POTS line replacement and copper retirement: source note pots-line-replacement-force-majeure-notice},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/pots-line-replacement-force-majeure-notice},
  note   = {Source note pots-line-replacement-force-majeure-notice, checked 2026-10-02}
}

Read in context