Absolutely not. Once a phone company service person had to be in our house. I don't remember why, but it was not to repair our wiring. He did, of course, see our wiring and he laughed because our wires are so old. They are the kind with the fabric insulation on them. In what decade was that last used?! (House is 99 years old.) I grew up in a house built in 1960, and that kind of phone wire seemed ancient even then. Our 1960 house did not have it.
But we have fine phone service and now DSL over those lines. Maybe it's only a good example of how they "used tah make 'em," while more modern wiring is the pits, but I doubt it. If you don't have raccoons chewing your wiring, or an earthquake severing connections, what can go wrong?
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