said by Dogfather 
:Depends on your market. Not everyone can get $5.70 basic POTS. In my area it's $10+taxes and fees for a total of about $18.
But you can get away with metered service with DSL. With dialup I'd be paying $18 for unlimited local plus taxes. But even then, POTS plus cheap dial up is less than 1/2 the price of Verizon's cheapest DSL.
The cheapest POTS line we can get (without the extortive "line insurance" package) now exceeds $20.00 per month with taxes, for measured service. Verizon (GTE) has always been permitted to charge 50-200% more for their services in California. Our city didn't have to "lower" its utility tax either.
