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.
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