Alabama City Wins Fiber Optic Grant

Communications Today, Nov 25, 2002

A small jurisdiction in Alabama soon will be served by fiber optics. The city of Brundidge has been approved for a Universal Service Administration Company grant that initially will provide a new phone system plus Internet service to the Tupper Lightfoot Memorial Library, to its city hall and to the Brundidge Police Department. The system will cost $66,000 to install, but the grant will take care of 90 percent. City leaders believe operating the network will cost $21,500 annually, but they plan to apply for another grant to help defray those costs. The city did not release any details regarding who would be building out the network and when it will be complete.

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