Yes, you can get DSL without phone service, it's known as Fiber Optic or Dry Loop or IFITL (Integrated Fibre In The Loop). The service is provided by major ISP's in US, namely Verizon & AT&T. For more information, you can contact the Sales Office. MG

2009-06-20 02:16:59 (mighty )

in the merger between bellsouth and at&t they were forced to agree to sell "naked DSL" but they were never required to market it. so at&t sells only DSL but don't advertise it.

2011-09-10 08:20:24 (countscabula )

In the "2009-06-20 02:16:59 (mighty)" comment, there is a slight issue with the facts presented. DSL and a Dry Line (loop) are being confused with fiber. They are two separate and totally different things. I am not going to address the fiber, just the dry-line, since this was not in the realm of the question. (Nor my expertise) You can get DSL without a phone. Warnings about availability and reluctance of companies as stated here should, as far as I know, be taken into consideration. I had 2 land lines to our house from the telco switch building in our town; about 1.25 miles away. (Back from the ages whence you had to get a second line for the kids, if you ever wanted access to a phone again after one of them became a teenager.) First we had one phon disconnected when the kids moved out. Then when DSL became available I had DSL installed on the remaining and connected line along with with my phone phone service. So for me it was very easy to transition to DSL on a Dry Line (or loop or pair) All that was involved for me was disconnecting of the voice connection and a billing change. Now about the Dry Line. A dry-line is any pair of (nearly always telco) wires installed from one place to another on telco poles and without a voice signal. They were (are?) common for things like alarms. A rich person might have a dry line from their house to the local police department. Another use was from a bank to the police department. Local PD's generally discouraged a private alarm setup like I mentioned, but were good with and even encouraged one from things like a bank. The issue was that every alarm line that terminated at the PD, the police had to monitor. A dry line could be used for all kinds of other things too; maybe from a store to a branch store for daily uploads of sales and inventory reports. As you can see, a dry line need not have even one end terminate at the local telco. Rather than the large expense of getting permission to and installing a wire on telco poles, companies paid the telco to provide the dry line. Telcos did this by splicing segments of unused wires in its cables together to make a connection. What you need for DSL without voice is to get the telecom companies to install and connect it. If you have a phone line in place it is easy for the telco to do its part. But you need to realize that, a telephone wire that _Used_ to have a phone on it may not exist even one day later. The wires for the voice signal will be unused when the phone is disconnected; and then the telco may, at any time, use segments of it to splice together and provide a different service some where else. So it is best to have the DSL installed before removing the phone. A wire connection might not exist any longer after disconnecting the phone and you might have to pay the telco, and they may refuse, to go out and splice up a new wire pair. Big Bucks. The pair with one end at your house goes to the telco switch building and terminates in a locked are of the building. It is there that different companies go to install their service on a line. This is often the cause of delays in getting a connection - waiting for a company to use its key to gain access to its equipment and disconnect it, then waiting for another company, and another, ....

2011-12-21 14:05:17