Bell phone me a couple of times a day, every day, trying to sell something. I haven't heard this pitch but I don't get it at all; if the phone wiring in the house doesn't work wouldn't you just use a wireless phone ? For five or so years until recently we didn't bother with a home phone at all, we just used cellular phones and cable internet; that's a viable option unless you have a vast number of incoming calls.

Thanks everyone!
The input is great, what about the programming side of things?
is the service better value for money with bell or rogers?
my son is a major soccer fan and bell offers a good range of soccer channels in their packages. what about rogers?

Having been on both, I can definitely say Bell is cheaper and the programming is almost identical. The only real difference is you can get the on-demand movies on Rogers but not on Bell. I never used that anyway (costs like renting the movie) so I didn't care about that.