But, I suspect that as we are better able to supply high speed internet to rural areas by satellite or other means, the need in even rural areas will quickly decease to the point of not obsolescence at some point.
you would THINK that would be the case, and yet over decades the government shelled out hundreds of billions to telecoms to do just that, and yet there are many areas without broadband
most promising these days seems to be starlink with their low orbit satellites