Public utilities provide electric, gas, water or telephone service to customers in a specified area. Utilities have a duty to provide safe and adequate service on reasonable terms to anyone who lives within the service area on without discriminating between customers. Because most utilities operate in near monopolistic conditions, they can be heavily regulated by local, state, and federal authorities. Generally, the local and state agencies are called Public Service Commissions (PSC) or Public Utility Commissions (PUC). Municipal Utilities and Rural Electric Cooperatives may be unregulated though.
Cable is a town in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 836 at the 2000 census. Cable is best known as the starting point of the American Birkebeiner cross-country skiing race and the end point of the Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival Mountain Bike race. U.S. Highway 63 serves as a main arterial route in the community.