My mother had a fun experience once with a telemarketer about the mortgage on her house. The telemarketer kept insisting that they could provide a cheaper mortgage. She wanted to get a written promise from them that they would be cheaper than her current mortgage but they couldn't provide her with one.

In the end she had something else to do so she told them she had no mortgage (which is true btw) and the telemarketer got angry at her for wasting his time.

The maximum amount of fee's they can ask for the service are capped by the government to prevent that from occurring. It's actually a good working system here. We have a wide variety of ISP's to choose from.

They are also investigating the possibility of doing the same with the cable market, but we do not get much progress there currently.