Originally Posted by
star_world

Are you sure about this part specifically? My understanding was that they are reselling the Verizon DSL infrastructure, in the same way that they are with the FIOS service.
Not 100% and I actually didn't look into it too closely; I just assumed that it was similar to most of the other ISPs out there and the way they operate. It could be on the same DSLAM but that is a relatively trivial part of the differences.