On Saturday, November 3, 2012 12:14:34 AM UTC-4, wrote:
They call this progress.

Phone companies are not charities. They are losing money on copper land line service, so they either go out of business and leave you with NO phone service at all, or they switch to something that they can market, namely FIOS.. Then they can upsell you for broadband Internet service.

Copper land line service is no good if the generators powering the switching equipment run out of fuel, or are flooded, or get knocked over by an earthquake too...