Uhm, not to make anyone mad but directv doesnt require all receivers to have a phone line connected, its not a law, its one of their guidelines, none of my receivers are connected to phone lines (mostly because i have VOIP and they cant dial out) and my tivo units dial in through PPP over Serial.
I have advised D* about this and they do not care at all. I just cant order PPV from my remote.
I however will not answer the OPs question as it seems he would be violating Canada law.
Correct,
D* would like you to have them connected, but it's not paramont.
I have 3 rec's and only one hooked to a phone line, only reason is I'm not about to run more lines to other rooms if I don't have too, I've got way to many other priorities around here.
All you have to do is let D* know you won't be plugging a perticular unit into a phone line and they will still activate it.
There are an increasing amount of peopel that do not have a land based phone line anymore, so they would be shooting themselves it the foot if they decided that a phone line was a nessesity.
Jimbo