The first phase of a ‘Zap the Gap’ program to improve cellphone s...
The first phase of a “Zap the Gap” program to improve cellphone service in northern Mississippi has been “a huge success,” Chairman Brandon Presley of the Public Service Commission said Tuesday. His office has forwarded to the companies involved…
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almost 1,500 reports of little or no service that the commission has collected since August, he said. “It’s time for the cellular companies to tell us how they are going to fix these problems,” Presley said. Since 2005 the federal Universal Service Fund has paid wireless eligible telecommunications carriers more than $512 million in dedicated high-cost subsidies to extend and improve wireless service in rural Mississippi, he told us.