In the case where your voice line is not provided by your local telco.. for example, you are in verizon territory but have local phone service through RCN, or through Sprint.. although the ILEC controls the physical line, the first layer of voice support is of course the company you ordered local service through.
In these situations, Line Sharing may not be available to you, since currently the CLEC (for example, Covad) is required to have inked agreements for your area with not just the big Telco, but all the competitive voice providers as well!
As of the time of writing (Q1 2001), the FCC and some state regulatory authorities are pushing the "baby bells" to upgrade their systems so that customers that have elected to use other voice companies for local phone service are not precluded from getting DSL. It is expected that this real block to getting DSL will be removed completely by the end of the year.

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