Copper retirement
Copper Retirement Notice 2026-03-A-NJ
- Notice ID
2026-03-A-NJ- Dated
- September 8, 2026
- Implementation
- On or after December 10, 2026
Verizon plans to retire the copper facilities at all remaining locations in 62 wire centers.
New Jersey landline checker › Penns Grove
Possibly affectedVerizon plans to retire copper at its Penns Grove office on or after December 10, 2026
- Office
- Penns Grove
- Address
- 201 S. Virginia Avenue, Penns Grove, NJ 08069
- CLLI code
PGRVNJPG- Notices
- 1
The Penns Grove office (PGRVNJPG) is listed in Verizon's Copper Retirement Notice 2026-03-A-NJ, dated September 8, 2026, with an implementation date on or after December 10, 2026. If your line is a Verizon landline served from this office and runs over copper, Verizon may require you to move it before that date. If it already runs over Fios fiber, or your service comes from a cable, internet-phone or mobile company, this notice may not apply to it.
We keep only the first six digits of a number you check (the prefix), never the whole number.
The notices for this office
What it means
A copper retirement means Verizon stops offering service over the copper wires that run from this office to homes and businesses, and then stops maintaining them. Services on those wires have to move to another technology. Verizon's notices say it may require customers to move “well before the copper retirement implementation date.”
If a line here already runs over Fios fiber, or comes from a cable, internet-phone or mobile company, this notice may not apply to it. Your phone company can tell you what your line runs over.
Prefixes served from this office
Verizon New Jersey numbers that start with these prefixes are served from the Penns Grove office (PGRVNJPG), according to the prefix data.
Penns Grove rate center
- 856-299
- 856-351
In 1 of these prefixes, some thousand-blocks belong to other companies. A number in one of those blocks is not a Verizon line from this office; the number check above tells them apart.
Towns and rate centers: Penns Grove. Prefix data: Local Calling Guide.
What to do
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:
- Cellular landline-replacement devices that keep the existing panel or phone working.
- Internet phone service (VoIP), from Verizon, a cable company or another provider.
- Fixed or mobile wireless service.
Fire alarm panel
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 phone
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.
Fax machine
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.
Security or burglar alarm
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 or door phone
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 terminal or ATM
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.
Home phone or medical alert
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.
Get help, or get an alert
Sources and data date
- Copper Retirement Notice 2026-03-A-NJ, dated September 8, 2026
- Notices checked through October 23, 2026; prefix data refreshed October 23, 2026.