Cable Television Deployments
It is mostly available in North America, Europe, Australia and East Asia, and less so in South America and the Middle East. Cable TV has had little success in Africa, as it is not cost-effective to lay cables in sparsely populated areas. So-called "wireless cable" or microwave-based systems are used instead.
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