Delivering great broadband to everyone in a community requires thinking about broadband in a new way. Some cities have already made that shift.

The Department of Agriculture experiments with new ways to drive rural broadband deployment.

The passage of the Agricultural Improvement Act and the opening of a funding window for the ReConnect program will help narrow the rural digital divide.

Providing broadband locally – with help from electric utilities – can be a good way to anchor rural economies.

Fiber, cable and wireless providers, along with electric cooperatives, have big plans for broadband in 2019.