I cant order from another provider. Verizon says line is SHARED?
Line share is a way of saying that the phone company owns the spectrum that your phone line can carry – but they can also sell or lease off portions of it for other parties to access… if line sharing is already in place on a given number, that means the portion of the phone company database that tracks this information is showing that the telco already has a share in place with a DSL vendor to provide service on that number… and the line share doesn’t come off until the DSL provider of record sends the telco a release for that number… period… even if you never actually got service from that DSL provider… you just ordered and then they went belly-up before you ever got sync… if line share is in place, that provider (or their duly designated assignee – if they’re out of business) has to release the line before someone else can put DSL on it… even if it’s Verizon… because by law now, Verizon DSL is treated as a third party for anti-competitive purposes by the local telco –
