Let's say cable service is 100/month for Don. The cable company absorbs US$15K in construction costs. Don now needs to pay his bill for 150 months or a little over 12 years for the cable company to recover that cost. There is no incentive for them in that equation. It sounds like Don is in a physically isolated location so there's probably few or no customers between the current end of the line and him.
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