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Originally Posted by crabby_bob
I've never seen a commercial where Cox, Charter, or Time Warner mention Comcast or any other cable provider. I always figured that's because there's really no competition between cable providers for individual consumers.
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But I have heard RCN refer to Comcast, and Comcast refer to FiOS, and DirecTV refer to Comcast, and so forth. Just because you don't see competition between specific pairs of suppliers that happen not to compete with each other doesn't mean that there aren't
other pairs of competitors that do compete with each other.
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Originally Posted by crabby_bob
In my town for example I can't purchase service from anyone but Comcast.
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You aren't a market. You're one customer. There are at least three competitors offering service in every municipality in the country.
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Originally Posted by crabby_bob
Does anyone have more than 1 cable provider available?
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We have five suppliers offering subscription television service to folks here in Burlington.