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Netflix, Net Neutrality, and Small-Town Internet Access

By Kansas News Service
Published April 24, 2018 at 7:06 PM CDT
Angel Alvarez, center, holds his phone as he and Eduardo and Giovanni Alvarez watch Youtube videos. They're camped outside the library in Plains, Kansas, using the Wi-Fi signal because broadband can be hard to come by in town. (photo credit: Josh Harbour/Special to the Kansas News Service)
Angel Alvarez, center, holds his phone as he and Eduardo and Giovanni Alvarez watch Youtube videos. They're camped outside the library in Plains, Kansas, using the Wi-Fi signal because broadband can be hard to come by in town. (photo credit: Josh Harbour/Special to the Kansas News Service)

 The lack of high-speed internet is a real problem for rural Kansas. Without it, businesses locate elsewhere, young people flee, aging residents can’t access telemedicine -- towns are at risk of becoming ghost towns. And as Ben Kuebrich of the Kansas News Service explains, Netflix is sucking up a lot of what bandwidth there is. 

The Kansas News Service is a collaboration covering health, education, and politics across the state. For more information about this story, click here. 

 
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