In reply to a post by Kronos2001:

Less than 50%? More like nowhere near 50%. Even when companies were laying cable in the late 80s to early 90s most of them when bust. That's how NTL became the national cable provider who then went bust and got bought out by Virgin. I'd be surprised if there had been any significant expansion of the cable networks in more than 15 years.

Edited by Andrue (Thu 28-Aug-14 11:43:11)