ABSTRACT
The cable companies excepted, the new information road-builders agree on one thing: the initial market for all this “bandwidth” is not the much-touted one of the couch potato flipping through 500 channels of interactive television, punching buttons to get videos on demand, to buy goods from video catalogs or to play video games with viewers across the country. The market will emerge one day — and will eventually be huge. But the biggest group of users to ride the superhighway in the next five years will come from big business. That is because the information superhighway being built is not a freeway but a toll-road.
