Three telecommunications companies are getting $51.5 million to expand fast Internet service in rural parts of Mississippi that currently don’t have access.
FCC records show AT&T was allotted money to expand service in all 82 counties, as well as in fringes of Alabama, Louisiana and Tennessee served by Mississippi phone networks. Counties allotted the largest amount of money include Amite, Attala, Carroll, Kemper, Neshoba and Wayne.
AT&T is getting $49.8 million from the Federal Communications Commission. That’s enough to make service available to 134,000 customers statewide who don’t have access now, and is 12 percent of the $427 million AT&T is accepting nationwide.
Dallas-based AT&T says it will use fixed wireless and possibly other methods to offer service in various areas of the state. Spokesman Lance Skelly said the company isn’t sure yet where it will offer service, or what methods it will use.
“AT&T is committed to serving rural Mississippi and using all available technologies, including AT&T’s innovative fixed wireless program that delivers broadband through the air using base stations and fixed antennas on customers’ homes or buildings,” AT&T Mississippi President Mayo Flynt said in a statement.
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