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Fingers crossed. If another cable operator was available I would have changed ISP already. What happened to "Monopolies commision"? when the only operator available in the area is Ntl, surely thats a monopoly? Telewest cannot supply this area because it's in the Ntl franchise area. Monopoly????
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Not at all. Let's see what would happen if the MMC were daft enough to make such a decision:
Intra-cable competition (where multiple companies can compete on the same infrastructure) would be about as successful as intra-rail competition (as in rail privatisation, which has given me the same number of operators from my local station (1) but at vastly increased cost). New entrants laying their own cables would be prohibitively expensive and uncompetitive without the new entrant being subsidised (by the taxpayer) or ntl shackled in some way (which would probably benefit the monopolist BT more than anyone).
Finally, there is already intermodal competition between ADSL and cable in practically all areas where cable is available, so ntl certainly don't have a monopoly.