Verizon plans to retire copper phone lines in 62 New Jersey central offices on or after December 10, 2026. Its notices list buildings, not customers. Enter a landline number and we tell you which Verizon office serves it and what Verizon has filed for that office.
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On September 8, 2026, Verizon New Jersey filed Copper Retirement Notice 2026-03-A-NJ. It lists 62 wire centers (central offices) where Verizon plans to retire the copper facilities at all remaining locations on or after December 10, 2026.
The notice says Verizon may require customers to move their services off copper “well before the copper retirement implementation date,” and that affected locations will have access to “VoIP service from Verizon or a cable company, or fixed or mobile wireless service from multiple providers including Verizon Wireless.”
Read Copper Retirement Notice 2026-03-A-NJ (PDF)
An earlier New Jersey copper notice, 2022-04-A-NJ (amended and refiled January 29, 2024) and 2022-04-A-NJ (November 7, 2022), covers Mountain View and Tuckahoe, on or after May 20, 2024.
Verizon also files notices when it retires the switch that serves an office and moves its calls to another switch. These are not copper retirements; they are mostly about how other phone companies connect to Verizon. 50 New Jersey switch notices have been published since 2022.
Network change
Verizon is retiring a tandem switch and moving its call-routing work between carriers to another tandem.
Offices: Hackensack, Rochelle Park
Network change
Verizon is retiring a tandem switch and moving its call-routing work between carriers to another tandem.
Offices: Freehold, New Brunswick
Network change
Verizon is replacing discontinued fiber terminal equipment (MC-ONT) used for voice, video and data in multi-tenant buildings; the notice says the same services continue on the new equipment.
Offices: Allentown, Asbury Park, Bound Brook, Bedminster, Bloomfield, Belleville, Berlin, Bernardsville, Bayonne, Cliffside Park, Closter, Collingswood, Cranford, Rockaway, Dover, Dumont, Eatontown, Elizabeth, Ewingville -Mercer, Freehold, Leonia, Glassboro, Hackensack, Haddonfield, Hightstown, Hillsdale (bergen), Jersey City Bergen, Journal Square, Keansburg, Long Branch, Little Ferry, Livingston, Marlton, Medford, Millington, Millburn, Morristown, Montclair, North Bergen, New Brunswick, Nutley, Murray Hill, Humboldt, Perth Amboy, Plainfield, Pennington, Passaic, Paterson, Red Bank, Ridgewood, Rutherford, Oradell, Summit, South Orange, Somerville, Spring Lake -Monmout, Trenton, Union City, Whippany, Westfield, Wyckoff
If your line runs over Verizon copper in an office on a retirement notice, it will have to move to another service. What to do depends on what the line runs.
Verizon's New Jersey copper retirement notice names the alternatives itself: “VoIP service from Verizon or a cable company, or fixed or mobile wireless service from multiple providers including Verizon Wireless.”
The kinds of replacement to ask about:
Fire alarm communicators are inspected, and whatever replaces the copper line has to be accepted by your fire alarm service company and your local fire official.
Ask your fire alarm service company now which replacement they support for your panel. Common choices are a cellular communicator or a dual-path communicator that uses cellular and the internet.
Keep the paperwork that shows the change for your next inspection.
Elevator emergency phones are inspected too. Ask your elevator service company now which replacement keeps the phone working and passes inspection.
A common choice is a cellular unit made for elevator phones that keeps the existing phone in the car.
Test a call from the elevator after the change.
A fax machine can keep working on a cellular landline-replacement device or on an internet phone line, but not every service handles fax well.
Send and receive a few test faxes on the new connection before the copper line is gone. An online fax service is another option.
Ask your alarm company whether your panel can report over a cellular communicator or the internet. Many panels can take a cellular module in place of the phone-line dialer.
Ask the alarm company to send a test signal to the monitoring center after the change.
Gate and door phones can often keep the existing unit on a cellular landline-replacement device, or be replaced with a cellular or internet intercom.
After the change, check that a call from the gate reaches the right phones and that the gate or door still opens.
Card terminals and ATMs that dial out over a phone line need a new connection. Most current machines can use the internet or cellular.
Ask your payment processor or ATM provider which connection your machine supports and how to switch it.
A home phone can move to a phone on a cellular landline-replacement device, to a cable or internet phone line, or to a mobile phone.
Medical alert devices that use a home phone line may need a cellular or internet version. Ask the device company before the copper is gone, and press the test button after the change.
Verizon is taking some copper phone wires out of service and moving the services on them to other technology. Before it does, it files a public notice that lists the central offices (the buildings phone lines run to) and the earliest date. Notice 2026-03-A-NJ, dated September 8, 2026, lists 62 New Jersey offices with an implementation date on or after December 10, 2026.
Not necessarily. The date in the notice is the earliest date Verizon gives, and dates can change. Verizon's notice also says it may require customers to move services off copper well before that date. Lines that already run over Fios fiber, or that come from a cable, internet-phone or mobile company, may not be affected by this notice.
The first six digits of a phone number (the prefix) were assigned to one phone company and one switching office. We look the prefix up and tell you which Verizon office serves it and which notices name that office. A number that was moved to another company, or a line wired from a nearby building, can differ, which is why results say "possibly affected" rather than giving a yes or no.
The number was first assigned to that company, not to Verizon. Verizon's notices cover Verizon landlines. If your line was later moved to Verizon, use the town search to see the notices for your area.
These lines are inspected. Ask your fire alarm or elevator service company now which replacement they support and what your local fire official or inspector requires. This page is not legal or fire-code advice.
Verizon replaces the switching equipment that serves an office and moves its calls to another switch. Those notices are mostly about how other phone companies connect to Verizon. A switch retirement is not a copper retirement.
MeiSIM USA is not affiliated with or endorsed by Verizon. This information comes from Verizon's public network-change notices, and dates can change. Confirm with your phone company. This is not legal or fire-code advice.
From Verizon's public network-disclosure pages, checked every week, and prefix data from Local Calling Guide, refreshed every month. Notices checked through October 23, 2026; prefix data refreshed October 23, 2026.
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