Unincorporated Camp Hill and Waverly and the Lake Martin waterfront may represent two very different pictures of Tallapoosa County, but they have one thing in common — both meet the definition of "unserved."
Earlier this month the Alabama Broadband Accessibility Fund awarded $17 million in grants to internet service providers in an effort to expand high-speed internet to the "primarily rural, unserved areas of Alabama." Four of those grants were in Tallapoosa County, two to Point Broadband, one to Windstream and one to Charter Communications subsidiary Spectrum Southeast.
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