December 24, 2025 – The inevitable has started. AT&T in Oklahoma (former Southwest Bell) is slowly turning off central offices. The first appears to be a small town called Hitchcock, OK, about an hour NW of Oklahoma City. This is a VERY small town that was served by a 5ESS remote switch. This is a screen shot of a posting from LinkedIn gloating about the shutdown of wireline (landline) services completely. So as of December 2025, there are no ILEC services at all in this town. If you want a phone, you either use cellular or CLEC. No landline period. This is just the beginning, sadly.
