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Originally Posted by brk-lnt
In many towns the cable system is *barely* profitable, and sometimes it takes 10 years or more before the cost of building the system returns any real profit.
Sometimes an MSO will only agree to build infrastructure in a town if they get exclusivity for some number of years. Even in cases where that doesn't exist, if one operator is active, another is unlikely to want to build a system to "fight" over a limited subscriber base.
So, the reason is really nothing more than simple economics. There aren't enough subscribers to warrant competition.
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That makes sense. But the exclusive contract must end at some point and competition must be allowed. However I believe the local PUC should own the infrastructure and rent it out to whomever. There is no competition for infrastructure, just the service.