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[Id_Jit]

DSL and POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) are common in that they share the same pair of wires that come into your house. They are very different in how they work.
POTS is an analogue audio system (300 to 3,000 Hz [cycles per second]).
DSL is a digital RF (Radio Frequency) system.

Your “DSL splitter” isolates the DSL RF signal from the analogue POTS signal.
If Verizon tested your DSL connection, your POTS may not have been tested.
If so, back to square one.

Any other phones in the house that may be not hanged up properly?


Going on three decades ago, our now oldest son disabled our POTS for three days or more… It took my wife that long to discover it. The then Rug-Rat stuck something into an unused phone jack and managed to short out the connection to the two working wires by moving a terminal wire in the connector jack to the other operative wire. :-)

Id