Re:How is this illegal? (Score 1)

Nothing personal, but you are an idiot. "competition come along and buy the lines off them cheap" ?? One cannot buy the phone companies lines. You can LEASE 'em for a sizable amount though... We are a small ISP in a semi-rural area and brought Wifi fixed access to it before the phone company brought in DSL. When they finally did a year ago, we evaluated getting into the DSL resale business; we would have had to buy a $20,000 DSLAM along with paying SBC ~$35 per month per customer. With a limited customer base here, how would we make money like that? We would have had to charge customers $60 each to make like $5 per customer per month.

You may want to check your foolish preconceived ideas at the door, OK.... thanks.