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 - their DSL order gets no more weight with the telco than did Winfire or FreeDSL or any of the others that use the telco's copper and implement line sharing...
now - as VVT suggests, there may be some new procedures in place to deal with the spate of orphaned customers that don't HAVE a provider to send out line sharing release requests - maybe there will be an emergency conversion or release policy put into effect...
but up to a few weeks ago... until the telco gets that form saying "take xxx-xxx-xxxx off of our DSL, please..." - your line is (for all intents and purposes) bound to that provider until they do...
and lest you think that this is for existing customers only, I have known of people who have had previously used and now-free telephone numbers issued to them as dsl lines - and against all logic, they did indeed get numbers with line share already in place...
unlike billing issues that will follow you wherever you go... line share stays with the npa/nxx it's originally assigned to..
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