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Internet Provider question for the bears:
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I'm unsure of any "legislation" or anything that you might be able to search around for to resolve the issue.
Every company can do different things, I don't think there are any "rules" for/against this. You might be able to talk your way out of it, but when I tried to talk one local utility out of paying for a landline that was part of the internet package they politely told me to fuck myself.
After the electric company decided to do internet stuff in competition with the phone company, the phone company's internet packages stopped having a landline bundled. So maybe you could harass customer service until they dropped the phone line charge.
Though I don't know if there's a requirement by certain companies organized in certain ways (like if the phone company is set up like a utility or something) that require it to have a means for 911 (or whatever your local equivalent is) emergency services to be able to ID your home's location.![emoji shrug-outta-hecks shrug-outta-hecks](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/7cc4b291-507e-4aa2-9ba6-35d81eb4a08a.png)
Solved itself to some degree, they can't sell me service apparently. Guess I live in a monopolized zone.