There Is Often Only One Provider of Cable Television Services

question 117

Multiple Choice

There is often only one provider of cable television services in each region of the country: Time Warner is in New York,Comcast is in most of New England,and so forth.When Comcast recently proposed a plan to buy Time Warner,the purchase ultimately could not be completed,mostly due to concerns that it would have caused Comcast to become an overly large ________with too much power.

• A) monopolist
• B) oliogopolist
• C) pure competitor
• D) predator
• E) icon

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