Check out this article about Verizon ending its support and production of copper wire lines!
If you are a voice copper customer and you call in with trouble on your line, when we go out to repair that we are actually moving you to the FiOS product. We are not repairing copper anymore."- Fran Shammo, Verizon's executive vice-president and chief financial officer
http://stopthecap.com/2012/08/20/verizon-declares-copper-dead-quietly-moving-copper-customers-to-fios-network/