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Xfinity is Comcast which I don't think has much connection to the Baby Bells or their reconsolidation. Unfortunately the the cost of running cable to the broad US suburbs is a pretty big natural barrier to competition.

https://i.redd.it/7v0zi94tms181.jpg



Too bad we can't treat laying cable as a public utility, then multiple companies could use the same infrastructure to compete.

Instead we ended up paying for dark fiber with companies having no incentive to use it.


There are some towns trying to do that but it's being viciously fought by the cable companies who love their little seminatural monopolies.




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