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Originally Posted by rogermevans
Only if the government spent loads of money building your house, then sold it to you for a few pounds (which, IIRC happened with the BT phone network - they sold billions of pounds of networking equipment to BT for a few pounds).
Not quite. AFAIK, there are only a few groups of people who can enter your house without your permission and without a warrant.
When NTL took on the smaller cable companies, they took on the debts incurred building the networks. This nearly bankrupted them. They are still paying off one of the largest debts in corporate history. Forcing NTL to open their network (although, as Bill C says, it already is open to those who wish to pay) could actually bankrupt NTL. So, less competition.
In the mean while, if NTL's prices do cause you concern, there *is* competition in the market. AOL on the NTL network, and the various ADSL providers. You'll also find BT is quite competitive when it comes to costs.
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perhaps i should have worded it as "a suprising number of people can" rather than "loads of" but i expect lots wouls still think it rather a lot of them
and yep there is aol but that just goes to show the lack of competition in reality as if aol can make a profit despite paying ntl, then there is still a lot of profit being made that a bit better competition could reduce a bit in our favour