Mississippi to See $4.6M Buildout of High-Speed Fiber

Government Technology: Bay Springs Telephone Company, Inc. will use a $4.6 million grant to deploy a fiber-to-the-premises network to connect 5,139 people, 69 businesses, 77 farms, three fire stations, two post offices, two health care facilities and five educational facilities to high-speed broadband Internet in Jasper, Jones, Newton, Lauderdale and Smith counties in Mississippi.

In March 2018, Congress provided $600 million to USDA to expand broadband infrastructure and services in rural America.

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