The music companies may be growing up, with enthusiasm for the Internet driven in part by both envy of the success of Apple's iTunes store--which has sold over 5 billion songs since it opened in 2003--and by fear of losing customers to the computer company turned music kingpin.

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But then private operators, anticipating a surging demand for capacity thanks to the growing volume of internet traffic and benefiting from technological advances that sharply reduced the costs, challenged this set-up with an explosive period of investment in new cable routes.

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