I think there's ATT and satellite, so not sure they are no other options.
When I think of the free market, I don't mean the present situation. This is not a free market. Cities set up exclusive contracts with cable providers like comcast.
In a free market, people would be banding together to negotiate for better terms and to lower infrastructure costs, but not at a city-wide level where they are frozen into the solution negotiated by grafty politicians.
I don't pretend to know how a truly non-coercive free market would play out, but I imagine condo home owner associations being able to choose from a variety of options.
They already do so for other services and would probably do the same for utilities if we didn't have the current system of regulated monopolies.
In a truly free market, the type of suits you refer to wouldn't work. Municipalities wouldn't even be involved.
We can add more coercion to the system, but I think undoing the coercion we already have is a better long term approach. Of course, its not often easy to see that path, especially when it looks so politically impossible.
When I think of the free market, I don't mean the present situation. This is not a free market. Cities set up exclusive contracts with cable providers like comcast.
In a free market, people would be banding together to negotiate for better terms and to lower infrastructure costs, but not at a city-wide level where they are frozen into the solution negotiated by grafty politicians.
I don't pretend to know how a truly non-coercive free market would play out, but I imagine condo home owner associations being able to choose from a variety of options.
They already do so for other services and would probably do the same for utilities if we didn't have the current system of regulated monopolies.
In a truly free market, the type of suits you refer to wouldn't work. Municipalities wouldn't even be involved.
We can add more coercion to the system, but I think undoing the coercion we already have is a better long term approach. Of course, its not often easy to see that path, especially when it looks so politically impossible.