said by Hall :

You can't blame ANY cable company that they're the only provider in town.

In Kevin Martin’s July 2005 Wall Street Journal op-ed, he tried to portray the U.S. broadband market
as healthy: “Broadband platforms are engaged in fierce competition,” he wrote. “In addition to telephone and cable providers, broadband access is increasingly being delivered to consumers via satellite, wireless, and fiber or powerline providers. ... This competition is leading to broadband providers offering customers faster and faster connections at lower and lower prices.” Martin’s claims about “fierce competition” were wrong then, and the picture is even worse a year later. The share of residential lines controlled by cable and DSL companies has increased over the past several years, and these two platforms now dominate 98 percent of the market (see Figure 13). According to FCC data, cable modem continues to be the dominant platform, accounting for 58 percent of all residential and small business lines.

said by Hall :

They didn't do anything to create this. Other cablecos are free to come into a city and build an infrastructure but they choose not to...

Consumers across the nation have relatively little choice in broadband services. The top two
cable companies and the top two DSL companies together controlled over half of the entire U.S. broadband market (see Figure 14). The top 10 broadband providers, each a regional monopoly in cable or DSL, made up over 83 percent of the broadband market. The U.S. broadband market is essentially a series of regional duopolies. The largest non-incumbent provider is Sprint, accounting for less than 2 percent of the entire market.