That may be, but the customer is the one who should be making this determination, not the seller of the service. This is typical monopoly-speak by AT$T... we know whats good for you, you will buy our DSL and you will also buy a phone service to go with it, we dont want people to realize that land lines really are outdated and useless for most consumers and a way we can gouge all of you a whole lot more that you want us to.