I should mention that with ATT-uverse do don’t need to get any phone service either with uverse nor with traditional ATT phone service. (With just DSL, you need to get phone service too).
However, you *might* want to get a regular (stripped) phone service for emergencies/reverse 911/local calls. The trick is that you just request ATT to provide you a regular phone line with NO long distance access, NO call waiting, NO unlimited local calls. You can get your ATT phone line bill down to $10/month. You can still make local calls, and they don’t cost extra up to a set allocation of total # of calls and total # of mins, beyond which you start paying minute by minute. However, if you rarely use the land line, you won’t need to worry about going over your local minutes.
