California Orders SBC to Split Phone, DSL Service

An anonymous reader points to this report at overclockersclub.com which begins "The great state of California has ruled that SBC Communications must sell local phone service and broadband service separately. This gives SBC customers the option to change local phone providers and/or choose any DSL company they wish."

Comments

Speakeasy?

[SoCalChris]

Will this allow me to get a different DSL provider, such as SpeakEasy, without having phone service?

I can't wait to read

[CompWerks]

the rest of the posts about this, but I personally think it's great.

Having to have a phone line in order to have DSL is the only thing keeping me from dropping phone service and using my cell phone full time.

Nice, now how about CABLE

[The Slashdolt]

Comcast should have to separate their internet service and their cable. I use directv/tivo so therefore I must pay a penalty extra price for cable internet access. If DSL and phone run over the same line, but are separate features, then cable and internet access over the same cable should be separate features as well. Customers shouldn't pay extra for internet just because they don't want to use one of your other services.