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C Spire
Telecommunication company in the U.S. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
C Spire, formerly known as Cellular South, Inc.,[1] is an American privately owned telecommunications and technology company headquartered in Ridgeland, Mississippi. The company consists of three business divisions – Wireless, Home Fiber, and Business.
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![]() C Spire's corporate headquarters in Ridgeland, Mississippi | |
C Spire | |
Company type | Subsidiary |
Industry | Telecommunications |
Founded | 1988; 36 years ago (1988) |
Founder | Wade H. Creekmore Jr. and James H. "Jimmy" Creekmore Sr. |
Headquarters | , U.S. |
Number of locations | 72 stores, 2 call centers, 4 data centers, 6 sales offices |
Area served |
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Key people | Suzy Hays (president and CEO) |
Products | Wireless voice and data, fiber to the home, cloud services, managed IT services |
Parent | Telapex, Inc. |
Website | cspire |
C Spire owns and has access to low, mid and high-band wireless spectrum in its primary service areas. The division offers 5G and 4G LTE mobile services and has been offering wireless services to customers since 1988. C Spire has wireless customers in Mississippi, the Memphis Metropolitan Area, and parts of Alabama including Mobile and Baldwin County. C Spire sells plans and devices for prepaid and postpaid customers and was the first wireless carrier to offer free incoming calls and versions of unlimited calling plans to customers.
C Spire Home Fiber, which launched one of the nation's first Gigabit speed Fiber to the Home efforts in 2013, provides gig and multi-gig residential fiber internet access for thousands of consumers in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee.[2] C Spire owns or manages over 20,000 route miles of buried fiber optic cable.
C Spire Business offers fiber-backed broadband, telephony and IT services.
C Spire is owned by the holding company Telapex, Inc.,[3] which also owns Telepak Networks, Inc., and several smaller Mississippi and Alabama telecoms.