DataRemote COO Timor Brik to Join MetTel Webinar on AT&T's November 15 Copper Shutdown

DataRemote Chief Operating Officer Timor Brik will present with Sean Sullivan, MetTel’s VP of Product Management & Regulatory Affairs, in “Your Business ZIP Code Is on the Clock,” a live MetTel webinar on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, at 12:00 PM ET. The session covers AT&T’s planned discontinuance of copper-based services in portions of 19 states on or after November 15, 2026.

Free live webinar

Your Business ZIP Code Is on the Clock

Date

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Time

12:00 PM ET

Where

Online · Hosted by MetTel

MetTel's event page also lists the ZIP codes in the affected areas.

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The event

• Host: MetTel, whose POTS Transformation solution is built on DataRemote’s 90X1.
• Date and time: Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 12:00 PM ET.
• Format: Live webinar with Q&A. MetTel’s invitations describe it as a no-cost session.
• Registration: MetTel’s event page.

MetTel’s event page lists these agenda topics:

1. How to identify copper dependence
2. Which systems could be affected, from voice and fax lines to alarms, fire panels, elevator phones, and security systems
3. Why older replacement playbooks fall short
4. How to build a location-by-location plan
5. What the retirement activity means for a broader POTS strategy

The speakers

Sean Sullivan is VP of Product Management & Regulatory Affairs at MetTel.

Timor Brik is Chief Operating Officer of DataRemote. He previously served as the company’s General Counsel and is a licensed attorney. He writes and speaks on copper retirement, POTS line replacement, and telecom regulation; his published commentary is collected on his author page.

What AT&T filed

On December 1, 2025, AT&T Services, Inc., on behalf of its incumbent local exchange carrier affiliates, filed three applications with the FCC under Section 214(a) of the Communications Act and 47 C.F.R. § 63.71. Each states that the affected services will be discontinued “effective on or after November 15, 2026, pending regulatory approval.” AT&T served courtesy copies on the Florida Public Service Commission, which published them on December 10, 2025.

Application	Affected services	Service area
Legacy POTS	AT&T Residential Local Service and AT&T Business Local Exchange Access Line Service, provided to approximately 90,000 customers	Portions of wire centers in 18 states
Remote Call Forwarding	Remote Call Forwarding Service and TeleBranch	Portions of wire centers in 19 states
Copper-only VoIP	AT&T Phone Service and AT&T Phone for Business where AT&T can provide them only over copper	Portions of wire centers in 19 states

The 18 states in the legacy POTS application are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin. The two companion applications add Illinois, which is the 19-state footprint MetTel’s event materials reference. AT&T states that it had previously grandfathered the affected services in these areas, meaning no new orders for them are accepted.

On January 13, 2026, Broadband Breakfast reported that the legacy POTS application had been automatically granted under the FCC’s streamlined discontinuance process.

Scope

• Service areas are portions of the AT&T wire centers listed in Exhibit 1 of each application, not entire states. Whether a given location is affected depends on its address.
• This record summarizes AT&T’s filed applications as served on the Florida Public Service Commission. It does not cover AT&T’s other discontinuance proceedings, which carry different dates and services. One example is WC Docket No. 26-276, which covers business POTS sold by AT&T as PrimePath Service or as Business Local Exchange Service associated with AT&T Business Network, OneNet Option, or ACC Business in 34 states and the District of Columbia. Under FCC public notice DA 26-1075, released October 5, 2026, comments in that docket are due October 20, 2026, and the application will be deemed granted on November 5, 2026 unless the FCC acts, with an authorized date of on or after November 5, 2026.
• The webinar’s content is the speakers’ presentation. This record announces the event and does not reproduce it.

Related resources

What building owners and facilities teams should do about AT&T’s retirements is covered separately in AT&T Copper Retirement: What It Means for You and Copper Shutdown: A Building Owner’s Guide. DataRemote tracks carrier notices in its Copper Retirement Bulletin, and its POTS line replacement appliances are designed to keep analog endpoints such as fire alarm panels, elevator emergency phones, and fax machines operating over managed cellular service. The FCC copper retirement rules page describes the underlying regulatory framework.

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