I see this argument made almost daily despite it being completely invalid.<p>If it was true, US cities, the high density areas, would have speeds comparable to countries such as Estonia (12mbps), Japan (50+mbps), and so forth.  However, <i>US internet sucks, even in the cities</i>.  In my experience there is almost no correlation between density and quality of internet.  And don't make the argument that it's due to the distance between cities: fiber trunklines cost almost nothing compared to the last-mile costs of wiring thousands of neighborhoods.<p>What <i>is</i> true is a correlation between <i>competition</i> and quality of internet.  Areas with only one provider almost inevitably have terrible service.<p>The excuse that "US internet is worse because our country is larger" is a cheap cop-out to avoid admitting that our telecommunications infrastructure is in many ways worse than some third-world countries.