Verizon letting DSL subscribers cancel their landlines


Not exactly a gadget, but obviously in response to customers who want to ditch their landlines and switch entirely to cellphones and/or Voice over IP services like Vonage, Verizon has been quietly waiving the requirement that subscribers to their DSL service also pay for a telephone landline. As long as they also sign up for Verizon Wireless cellphone service, that is. The local phone companies like to pretend that there is some technical reason why you have to have a phone line to get DSL (there isn't), but apart from Qwest (and now Verizon), all of them require you to pay for one anyway.

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