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Originally Posted by number34
BT had a monopoly because they were the only company allowed to provide telephone services when they built up their network. Nothing is stopping others setting up in competition to NTL and Telewest so it is not a monopoly - Simple!
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I`m not sure that is true as the original smaller cable companies had to bid for the licence to lay cable in a particular areas, and I don`t think anyone else could get a licence, so in that sense they do have a local monopoly in the cable market.