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The delivery from the furniture rental outfit includes setting up the TV. As the guy was doing the setting up we asked what cable was better. He replied, “oh, I don’t know, I just have regular TV.” It seems like a lot of people don’t have cable--they could get it but they choose not to. It explains why there is comparatively so little choice.

We loved our satellite TV in the US and were hoping to get something like that here. I had originally been expounding the theory that they didn’t have satellite TV because there are only 20 million people in the whole country, and that the numbers didn’t make it as profitable as the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. After that guy’s comment I understand that there is not satellite TV because there is no market. How many people do you know who have a TV but don’t have cable?

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Last revised: October 2003