C Spire said it reached an agreement with...
C Spire said it reached an agreement with Jackson, Mississippi, to bring its gigabit fiber network to the state’s capital city (http://bit.ly/1lA7nMy). C Spire began selecting cities for its fiber network in November, when it said it would bring the…
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fiber network to Batesville, Clinton, Corinth, Hattiesburg, Horn Lake, McComb, Quitman, Ridgeland and Starkville (CD Nov 5 p13). C Spire’s extension of the network to Jackson “will address so many needs in our city from education and health care to business expansion while improving home values,” said Jackson Mayor Tony Yarber, a Democrat, in a Tuesday news release. C Spire CEO Hu Meena said in a statement that a primary goal of the network’s deployment “is to ensure Mississippi has easy access to fiber technology just as we are delivering on our goal of ensuring consumers and businesses in our state have access to the latest wireless technologies.” Residents could begin pre-registering for the service Tuesday, with C Spire saying it would use pre-registrations to determine which neighborhoods will be connected to the network. C Spire said its existing customers will pay $70 for just the fiber service, while non-customers will have to pay $80. The carrier is based in Jackson, Mississippi’s largest city and also where Meena lives.