re: Break the telcos?
Sorta like a bounced check.
If you're in business for yourself, and your cash flow is interrupted, it's a major inconvenience. We wouldn't be able to "break" them, but they'd lose money in interest and they'd have to BORROW to keep their cash flow going, therefore it would be a lesson to them.
Get 'em in the pocket book. They do it to us.