Our POTS provider here (Kansas) seems to have given up recently.

Over the last 2 years we've had to call in to get repairs done many times, and I don't know if we ever did in the 20 years before that.

And in the last couple months, our phones regularly quit working completely and we have to call in and go through lots of troubleshooting steps before the tech comes out and fixes the line half a mile away for the 10th time, only for it to quit working in another week or three.