They lease the facilities, including the telephone cable pairs from the phone company or in the case of the numbers, another provider, probably, again, from the phone company.
As I've always said, buy Internet service from the phone company. They own everything and lease to everyone else.
Think about this. Why would small ISP providers spend literally millions of dollars on infrastructure (routers, modems, cable facilities) when they can lease them from someone else? Who do you think owns ALL the DSL facilities? Where is it located? In the phone company central offices.
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While searching Isp's I discovered that Copper.net and Netizen have the same access phone number
How does this work???
Thanks for the answer
Ray

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