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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.



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