Serving Fauquier, Loudoun, Clarke, Rappahannock and Prince William counties — and buildings nationwide

Verizon has asked to shut off copper phone lines in Virginia.

If you have had a letter, the lines it names are probably doing more than you think — the elevator emergency phone, the fire alarm panel, the lift station autodialer. The FCC paused the request on September 25, but it has not been withdrawn. We are in Middleburg, we replace those lines, and the audit is free. Switching to The Land Line Group can also mean substantial savings: up to 40% less than you pay now, depending on your current bill. Shutoff or not, we can still save you money on your lines: up to 40% less, depending on what you pay now.

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90 days

Minimum notice your carrier must give before shutting copper off

2029

The year AT&T intends to be out of copper almost entirely

$49

Per line, per month, white-glove install included

Someone qualified shows up, verifies the signal where the equipment actually lives, and tests the line before they leave.

There is no warning anymore

Copper retirement used to leave a paper trail. Carriers filed with the FCC, a comment period opened, and anyone watching a wire center could see it coming months out.

That ended in March 2026. The FCC eliminated the filing, the public notice and the objection process in a single order. There is no docket to watch. The notice now arrives as a letter to whatever address gets your phone bill, and it can give you as little as 90 days.

Ninety days is enough to execute a plan you already have. It is not enough to build one — not across multiple buildings, with equipment to order, monitoring companies to coordinate and inspections to pass, all competing for the same window.

What we replace

Elevator emergency phones

Two-way communication is required by code, and elevators fail inspection when the line is dead. The phone, its programmed number and the certified system stay exactly as they are.

Fire alarm and security panels

Panel communicators, alarm dialers and area-of-refuge phones. Standard VoIP generally will not pass inspection. Ours is built to UL, NFPA 72 and ASME A17.1 guidelines.

Water, wastewater and utility

Lift station autodialers and SCADA callout lines are usually the oldest copper on a municipal account and the most expensive to keep running.

Everyday business lines

Fax, credit card terminals, fuel controls, gate intercoms, modems. No code attached, just a bill that keeps climbing. A straight cost-reduction swap.

One provider for the hardware, the connection, the phone service and the install. One number on the invoice.

What it costs

$49

per line, per month — white-glove installation included

Hardware, the wireless connection, the phone service and the site visit, all in one recurring number. No separate installation invoice.

That is almost certainly less than the copper line costs you today. Business POTS commonly runs $65 to $100 per line per month, and considerably more where carriers have pushed rates up ahead of retirement.

A certified technician comes to the site, mounts and configures the device, verifies wireless signal at the actual location, and tests the equipment on the end of the line before leaving. With elevator phones and fire panels the failure mode is never the device — it is a line nobody properly tested, and the inspector finds it first.

Self-install is available at $35 per line for lines with no code attached to them — fax, card terminals, back-office modems. We will tell you which of yours qualify.

Who we work with

Commercial property. Multi-tenant office, retail centers, medical buildings, hotels, warehouses, self-storage, car dealerships, paint and body shops, houses of worship, and HOA and condo associations. Usually triggered by a failed inspection or a phone bill that tripled.

Municipalities and public agencies. Towns, water and sewer authorities, school districts, housing authorities, libraries and parks departments. Municipal copper is typically the oldest and most scattered on any carrier network — and line replacement is an operating expense, not a capital project, which is often what decides whether it happens this fiscal year.

Estates and large properties. Gate intercoms, barn and outbuilding lines, well and irrigation controls, alarm dialers on properties where the copper predates the internet service.

Someone qualified shows up, verifies the signal where the equipment actually lives, and tests the line before they leave.

How it works

1 Line audit. We inventory every copper line on your account and identify what each one actually feeds. A meaningful share of lines on most bills are dead, duplicated, or serving equipment nobody has used in years. Cancelling those costs nothing and often covers part of the project.

2 Compatibility and signal check. Most panels, dialers and autodialers migrate untouched. We confirm which do, and verify wireless signal at each location before anything is ordered.

3 Install and port. Devices arrive configured. Existing phone numbers move over, so inspector records, monitoring company files and programmed dialer numbers all stay valid.

4 Ongoing monitoring. Email and SMS alerts on device offline, battery status and specific numbers dialed. You find out a line failed from an alert, not from an inspection.

Start with a phone bill, not a purchase order

Send us a recent bill and we will tell you what every line feeds, which ones you can cancel outright, which ones are tied to code, and what replacement actually costs. No obligation.