Internet Service - Repairs

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 12:02 -0800, Alex Kleider wrote:
> On 2015-01-21 11:10, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 16:15 -0800, Tom Tt wrote:
> >> Do the other Internet Service Providers do the same?  Probably so.
> > 
> > Sonic does. DSLExtreme was unable to when I was a customer.
> 
> My experience has been that Sonic depends on AT&T lines but that their 
> ability to contact AT&T and get something fixed is far better than mine!

This is not true. Sonic is a CLEC that does not require AT&T at all. I
have reason to believe (but I could be wrong) that they even block AT&T
from bothering you after you port your AT&T phone number to Sonic.