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Originally Posted by Defiant
This is one of the main problems I think. They should be competition. Everyone goes on about BT holding the broadband market back in this country yet the cable operators don't have to compete against each other. That's just wrong. I think NTL would get a BIG shock if they had to go in direct competition with Telewest!
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Possibly yes. The reason they don't compete is due to the cable contracts. Ntl have manchester/london/teeside etc telewest have liverpool etc.
After a company installs cables, and puts themselves BILLIONS in debt because of it, to have someone come along and say ok you must let X cable company use your lines would be shocking.
And having just got out of/ to be just getting out of chapter 11 (both ntl and telewest) neither could afford to cable new areas en masse even if the goverment did open it up. So.... merger... means only one cable company effectivley which means bt vs ntl:telewest, in which case there is no chance of cable companies competing against each other.