On the periphery of my practice, I've come across a number of seemingly unusual situations (but they really aren't in fact, when you think about them) that show up on the radar screen as stray dogs, such as your observation:
"...the telco's are sreaming for bandwidth on cable"
A primary factor inhibiting more of this is usually cultural and philosophical loathing for the other's model, just as much as it is anyting else. There are plenty of situations, IMO, when cutting deals might have been more profitable for all involved, as opposed to creating duplicate, sometimes triplicate, capabilities in the same region or locale. Yes, there are some other underlying reasons why this is not a very practical approach without doing major surgery to the franchise and regulations which are presently in effect, granted.
Usually, it's a cable operator who wants to resell local dial tone by reselling telco facilities. Sometimes a cable operator will even resell dsl's like RCN does in some locales, and the @ org, as in @Work. I've not come across a telco of any appreciable size, however, who has sought cable bandwidth from an existing cable operator (except for some Open Video System trials) for Internet access, which is what I assume you mean by screaming for bandwidth on cable.
But, what's good for the goose...
Why not? I think that we are going the see the rules on one medium commutable to the other, just as we may see the ISPs getting DSL to open up (in those situations where the ILEC restricts access to their own ISP function), the way they want Cable to open up.
BTW, since these telcos are in your locale, which ones would they be?
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