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After my wife and I got a cellphone plan with enough minutes to handle all the calls we make (which is not many), we figured we could drop our local phone service entirely. Except, umm, we want to keep that Internet thing. So I called Verizon and said: "Hi, I'd like to cancel local phone service but keep DSL. Is that possible?" And the CSR said: "Sure! We call that 'dry loop DSL' and it costs $40/month." ...which is what we're paying now for DSL *and* local phone service. (If we cancelled our voice mail, we'd basically be paying $20/month for DSL, $10/month for the pay-by-the-minute local calling plan, and $10/month in taxes.) I checked out RCN and Comcast, but as far as I can tell, even their cheapest plans involve Internet access bundled with either landline phone service (plus doodads that we would never use) or cable TV (which we don't want badly enough to pay for). Are there any other options, or is $40/month really the lowest that we can go?
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