] Aside from users of naked DSL services, an FCC decision
] would also affect "cord-cutters," a group of about 20
] million U.S. residents who don't have local phone lines
] and go solo instead with their cell phones. As a result
] of the possible FCC ruling, cord-cutters would have to
] buy a local phone line in order to get DSL.

When I moved to Georgia I was informed that I had to have a pots line to get DSL. I moved here after 2002.

Source: FCC to dress 'naked' DSL