The c*nts from Verizon tried that in Fire Island, NY. Fortunately, the state Attorney General slapped down that idea like a cheap prostitute who had spend all of her pimp's money on crack. Score one for NY! Glad to have a nanny government that actually fights the more retarded ideas of Big Corp.

(Fire Island is getting FiOS, which is an improvement over copper landlines and uses a separate, non-IP protocol for voice signalling. It's amazing that Verizon received millions of dollars to roll out high-speed fiber-to-the-premises in NJ, yet is now welching on that promise.)