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Does DSL require a residential phone line?
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 10:58 pm
by Kyle
Do you have to pay for at least a local phone line in order to get DSL (with Bellsouth) or can you pay for DSL without the land line?
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 5:19 am
by salehhesham
you should get a land line in order to get the dsl coz your land line will be filtered into 2 lines , one for calls and other for DSL
thnx
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 11:31 am
by jim1133
I thought I recently read that Verizon was dropping that requirement and would offer "naked" DSL. Some folks no longer use a land line and are happy with using their cell phone.
Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 2:08 pm
by press2esc
some bellsouth customers have a fiber connection, otherwise you must have a phone line. i could be mistaken but it may be a mandated requirement from the FCC a/o FTC.
P2E
Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 2:37 pm
by Kyle
Thanks for the help everyone. Looks like a phone line + DSL is the same price as Cable anyway.
Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:02 pm
by YeOldeStonecat
jim1133 wrote:I thought I recently read that Verizon was dropping that requirement and would offer "naked" DSL. Some folks no longer use a land line and are happy with using their cell phone.
You still pretty much pay for that line...some ISP's are marketing it as "naked"...but that phone line is still not free. Perhaps a buck or two less than having just a bare phone number and local calling on that line. One way, or another, you're paying for a phone line to come to your house.
naked DSL tariffs in some states but not all
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:31 pm
by superba
Hi,
Subject line says it all. For example, Montana allows a "naked" DSL connection; however, California does not.
Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 9:19 pm
by lght1
Hi
I am a former Verizon DSL and phone sunscriber who switched to GWI as they didnt require a land line account.
Since I have cell, what use is a land line to me?