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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
I have mentioned this a few times, true competition we would be seeing cable operators competing with each other but they are not. NTL have an effective monopoly on the following types of customers, unless you count AOL as effective competition.
People who cannot have a sattelite dish and want premium channels.
People who cannot change their phone socket.
People who cannot have ADSL due to distance or exchange not been enabled.
Most of the people who fall into these categories are probably in rented accomodation where they dont have the freedom to have telecom companies coming in doing work on the cables and sockets.
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I'm one such person. You honestly think I would pay for a telephone line I am forced to have and a TV service which chooses not to put through channels I want to watch if I could ahve Sky? No way.