Yes, they will make you have phone service from them. Of course, they'll also try to make you have call-waiting, caller-id, 3-way calling, memory dialing, and every other "feature" they have. And if you say you don't want them, they'll put it on anyway. Qwest need to just go away. I have a cable modem, and it's not that bad. I can't host on it, but download speeds are faster. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Nate Straz [mailto:nate at techie.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 3:22 PM > To: TCLUG > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] [OT] Dropping voice line and keeping DSL > > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:59:27PM -0600, Tim Wilson wrote: > > I'm interested in dumping my Qwest land line and going completely > > wireless for telephone service. (I've always said that I'd > get a cell > > phone when I could dump my land line.) The complicating > factor is that > > I've got DSL service from Qwest. I know there are a lot of > folks on this > > list who have probably comtemplated similar moves. Does > anyone know if > > Qwest requires you to have regular phone service if you have DSL? > > When I was checking on DSL, they said I have to have Qwest > phone service > in order to get DSL, since DSL is really just an out of band, extended > phone call. > > If you switched to a Cable modem, you could dump Qwest. > > Nate > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. > Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >