FedEx doesn't deliver here on Saturdays. But there is Internet access here. It enables me to work out of my home, writing computer books and articles for computer magazines. It enables local students and historians to conduct research. It enables local residents to enjoy the benefits of email and the sometimes-dubious delights of newsgroups and Web sites and chat rooms.
Internet access enables.
In fact, given that rural areas have few people, few stores, and small libraries and schools, you could argue that the Internet provides more benefits to rural areas than it does to urban ones. As a result, people who live in small towns and remote rural areas are unable to reap the benefits of Internet access. Unless they do something about it themselves. Many rural residents are doing something about it. Numerous efforts have succeeded in bringing Internet access into areas ignored by major providers.