# NEFCOM Source Audit

## Summary

Classification: `NO_PUBLIC_SOURCE`.

NEFCOM / Northeast Florida Telephone Company is a regional Florida ILEC, but this audit did not find a reliable public NEFCOM-hosted retirement, copper-retirement, network-change, or Section 214 discontinuance notice source suitable for a connector. The live corpus currently returns zero NEFCOM notices.

NEFCOM does publish a static regulatory/legal page, but its linked documents are general policy, rate, private-line, Lifeline, and network-management materials rather than public shutdown or service-discontinuance notices. FCC searches surfaced Northeast Florida Telephone Company in transfer-of-control and universal-service contexts, not as an applicant in recent service-retirement or discontinuance notices.

Because fewer than three usable retirement / discontinuance / network-change notice URLs were found, no connector was added in this PR.

## NEFCOM-Hosted Sources Checked

| URL | Result | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `https://nefcom.net/` | HTTP 200 | Static public home page; 48 anchors. Links to `Regulatory/Legal`, Lifeline FAQ, acceptable-use policy, and network-management policy, but no retirement, copper-retirement, network-change, or discontinuance notice index. |
| `https://nefcom.net/regulatory-legal/` | HTTP 200 | Static regulatory/legal page; 46 anchors. Links to Open Internet Framework Manual, NEFCOM A1 VoIP, private-line guidebook, rates/terms, Lifeline FAQ, acceptable-use policy, and network-management policy. No public-notice archive found. |
| `https://nefcom.net/resources/` | HTTP 200 | Directory-style resource page; 22 anchors. Contains general VoIP and private-line guide PDFs, not public shutdown/discontinuance notices. |
| `https://nefcom.net/business/` | HTTP 200 | Very small page with zero anchors; no notice candidates. |
| `https://nefcom.net/legal/` | HTTP 404 | No legal index at this path. |
| `https://nefcom.net/regulatory/` | HTTP 404 | No regulatory index at this path. |
| `https://nefcom.net/public-notices/` | HTTP 404 | No public-notices index at this path. |
| `https://nefcom.net/network-change-notices/` | HTTP 404 | No network-change notice index at this path. |
| `https://nefcom.net/wholesale/` | HTTP 404 | No wholesale notice index at this path. |

The reachable NEFCOM pages are static HTML, not SPA-only surfaces, but they are not a carrier public-notice archive.

## FCC Search Findings

Targeted FCC and web searches for NEFCOM, Northeast Florida Telephone Company, copper retirement, network change, Section 214 discontinuance, and domestic discontinuance did not surface recent retirement or discontinuance filings suitable for seeding.

The FCC documents below mention Northeast Florida Telephone Company, but they are not suitable seeds for the POTS Shutdown Tracker corpus because they do not describe copper retirement, network change, legacy service discontinuance, service impairment, or analog/POTS shutdown.

| FCC URL | DA number | Release date | Why not seeded |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-09-1509A1_Rcd.pdf` | DA 09-1509 | July 8, 2009 | Domestic Section 214 transfer-of-control application involving Townes Telecommunications affiliates, including Northeast Florida Telephone Company. |
| `https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-15-1316A1.pdf` | DA 15-1316 | November 19, 2015 | Domestic Section 214 transfer-of-control application involving Townes Telecommunications affiliates, including Northeast Florida Telephone Company. |

Other search results were state public-service-commission dockets, FCC Form 481 / ETC annual-support records, NTIA broadband submissions, or unrelated references. None were retirement, copper-retirement, network-change, or discontinuance notices.

## Searches Run

- `NEFCOM network change notice`
- `NEFCOM copper retirement`
- `NEFCOM Section 214 discontinuance`
- `NEFCOM public notice FCC discontinuance`
- `Northeast Florida Telephone Company public notice FCC discontinuance`
- `Northeast Florida Telephone Company domestic section 214`
- `Northeast Florida Telephone Company copper retirement`
- `Northeast Florida Telephone Company network change`
- `site:docs.fcc.gov NEFCOM Section 214`
- `site:docs.fcc.gov Northeast Florida Telephone Section 214`

## Connector Classification

Suggested classification: `NO_PUBLIC_SOURCE`.

No NEFCOM-hosted index page currently lists retirement, discontinuance, or network-change notices, and the FCC search did not produce at least three usable DA-numbered discontinuance or retirement public-notice attachments.

## Remaining Options

1. Contact NEFCOM / Northeast Florida Telephone Company and ask whether they publish network-change or copper-retirement notices outside the current public website.
2. Periodically re-run FCC searches for NEFCOM, Northeast Florida Telephone Company, and Townes Telecommunications affiliates.
3. Revisit connector work if NEFCOM publishes a public-notice index or if FCC Section 214 discontinuance filings become available.