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High-speed broadband is not evenly distributed. Rural areas with populations scattered across the land get left behind because of the high cost of connecting them. But they are hardly alone. Small communities located next to big ones can suffer, too, because the big city offers such a tempting opportunity to network operators in search of profit. One prosperous American city faced that challenge – and found an affordable way to overcome it that also transformed its economy for the better.