You can indeed get DSL without POTS service. Sometimes its a little difficult to get it, and last time I did it was for premium commercial access through BestWeb internet. They used the term "dry copper", but the words "dark" and "loop" are sometimes used instead.
Before I had that BestWeb commercial line, I had a verizon POTS line with BestWeb residential DSL on top. I never used the phone line for anything except recieving calls from my parents :) So I tried to remove my long distance carrier, a minimal but annoying $5 a month or so. Verizon removed my long distance carrier grudgeingly, and replaced it with a $8/month surcharge for not having a long distance carrier. It rurned out to be legal. There's no point to this story, I'm just bitter :) Anyway, these days theres no problem living without a landline. The only issue I've run into in the past 5 years is my satellite tv service (Dish, but DirecTV does it too) likes to "require" a landline as part of their anti-fraud efforts. As I only have one reciever, I'm exempt. Your alternative is cablemodems. -porkchop On 13/03/08 22:07 -0400, James E. LaBarre wrote: > While we are waiting to find out if & when we will be rebuilding our > house after the fire, I am considering getting a couple of regular > cellphones for my wife & I; we've been using tracfones for the past few > years, but while we're staying at the in-laws (who only have the one > phone line and no broadband available) we're using up WAY too much > time/money on prepay phone minutes. However, if we go for cellphones, > it might make more sense to forego getting landline service once we move > into our next house/apartment. > > Now the issue of broadband options comes up. I'm considering that I'll > get DSL rather than cable modem service for cost reasons. Is it even > possible to get DSL without having regular phone service as well? > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > > Mar 5 - Wearable Linux Computing > Apr 2 - Building a Kernel the Debian / Ubuntu way > May 7 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using > Linux > Jun 4 - TBD > Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative) _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 5 - Wearable Linux Computing Apr 2 - Building a Kernel the Debian / Ubuntu way May 7 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux Jun 4 - TBD Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative)
