Interesting. In a week where I read that AOL has quietly shut its dial-up service down for good, we learned that Verizon will no longer support the copper phone line coming into our house. We upgraded our FIOS a couple of months ago from the original router issued to us in 2006 to a modern 300GBps unit, and soon after that our telephone handsets all started reading LINE IN USE, and a couple of days later we got no dial tone at all. A call to Verizon verified they are no longer supporting the copper cables coming into the house, so our choices were to switch over to a FIOS-based telephone or simply give it up. We chose the latter, which means the number Jen was using for 25+ years is no longer in service.