Downes, Tom; Greenstein, Shane - Department of Economics, Tufts University - 2000
(ISPs), the leading suppliers of Internet access in the United States. The paper characterizes the location of 40,000 access … competitive to unserved. Over ninety-two percent of the U.S. population has easy access to a competitive commercial Internet … access market, while approximately four and one-half percent of the U.S. population has costly access. Urban/rural coverage …