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Originally Posted by dr wadd
With the cable companies, considering that they do have an effective local monopoly (and please, I`m not going to go into why for some people other providers are not an option again) they have a responsibility to look at more that simple profits. They are operating in a business where the terms of their operating licence mean that the competition they face is substantially reduced. If they are going to get those perks then they need to be balanced with a little bit more consideration towards the customer.
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One fallacy to that argument is that NTL do allow others to supply via their cable network, maybe only one, AOL, but they cannot be considered a monopoly.