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Originally Posted by scastle
NTL & Telewest are different. Yes, they are huge. However, their networks always were and still are privately funded. It should be up to them what they do with them.
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I strongly disagree. If the world was left to market forces we'd be up the swannee; that's why Governments need to reign in market 'superpowers' and prevent them abusing their market position. If NTL and Telewest want to merge, opening their combined network to rivals might well be the price they have to, and should, pay. I'm sure Morrisson's would have loved to have kept all (or at least many) of the stores they acquired when they bought Safeway but the Competition Commission decided this would give them too much market power (alebeit in certain towns/regions). The same applies to NTl-Telewest