[chongli]

If you use metropolitan areas then you're just proving the original point. Metro areas in the US are HUGE! For example, the Greater Las Angeles area is ~34k square miles. The entire country of England is only ~50k square miles! Understanding this is key to understanding why the cable and telecom businesses in the US are so difficult to enter.

[jsjohnst]

Per this link [0], there's 10 million homes (out of 90 million with broadband) in the US with fiber to the premise, versus 250k in the UK. The number seems a bit suspect, but I generally trust Ars.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/how-th...

[jsjohnst]

Citation needed for the ~34k mi² estimate. Per Wikipedia it's <1/7 that number (and yet has 1/4 the population).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_metropolitan_are...

[chongli]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Los_Angeles_Area

[jsjohnst]

And the corresponding one for NYC:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area

[jsjohnst]

Also, the point I was refuting from the parent post is the claim that Europe is urban where as the US is not. That's simply not factual, as others have also pointed out.