Phone and cable companies, including Verizon Communications Inc., certainly hope so as they prepare to launch ultrafast Internet service that can run at 100 megabits per second in some markets.
"There is a business case for ultrabroadband service in markets with a very dense population—New York, Chicago, Paris—but as a market's population gets thinner, the business case gets weaker," said Robert Atkinson, research policy director for the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, a Columbia University-based center in New York City.
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