Not sure about US law but usually you can choose whoever you do business with but if a group of independent companies works together to not do business with a particular entity then that does tend to be illegal ... Steve On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Vincent J. Bono wrote:
I don't know how an ILEC who also provided Internet would be able to respond, but as a CLEC here in the People's Republic of Massachusetts sometimes the only recourse a business has against a consumer is the ability to say "I simply choose not to do business with you".
Generic question related to this:
Can ISP's arbitrarily refuse to give service to someone who tries to sign up? i.e. if everyone refused to give Sony service could they sue on some sort of discrimination/collusion charge?
Do ISP/ASP/*SP's HAVE to provide services if someone knocks on the door requesting them or can they refuse for any reason what so ever?
Any armchair lawyers, who play one on TV, have the/an answer?
-Rob