[Held_to_Ransom]

The lines in my house are MINE. I own them. Unless I pay the phone company insurance each month (a few bucks)...I have to pay for them to fix it if it goes bad (or I do it myself). It is my phone line in my house...so people I want to stay off of it should...and that is what my representative heard (and most of them!). You of course are biased to your opinion because this is your business. Understandable. Stinks to be you. However, your freedom of speech stops at my property line...and those phone lines in my house are MY PROPERTY...as is the PHONE. So...please stay off of my property and stop wasting my time. The do not call list is a way of telling you to stay of my property (remember...I OWN IT!)...just like a sign hung on the fence.

But the phone lines to your house are on your property and they are not yours. They are the property of a private though well regulated company, and you can't make a phone call without passing over the system which telemarketing makes a major contribution to supporting. They support you calling, but you would deprive them of supporting themselves. If you phone network was private, you could limit it's use, but you can't. You are, however. free to disconnect your phone and not let anyone call you on it. You are also free to set up a private phone network so that you can make your calls without financially bleeding off of others, but you won't, because you it wouldn't be affordable.

Marie Antoinette said 'let them cake.' You are saying 'let them eat cake, but give me the bread off their tables first.'

[kevao]

But the phone lines to your house are on your property and they are not yours.

Wrong. At the point where the phone line enters your home, YOU own the line -- it's your property, your responsibility. I found this out the hard way.

If you don't believe me, call your phone company and tell them there's something wrong with the wiring inside your home; then ask whether there will be a charge for repairing the wire, and if so, why.