C Spire to unveil first phase of Tech Movement initiative aimed at transforming Mississippi through technology

RIDGELAND, Miss., Sept. 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

    WHAT:       News media are invited to attend a press
                conference this morning where C Spire
                executives will announce a major company
                initiative aimed at giving consumers and
                businesses the technology tools they need
                to be successful in the new digital
                economy.


               How do you solve a problem?  You get out in
                front of it.  How do you ensure that
                Mississippi is part of the technology
                revolution and doesn't get left behind?
                You boldly propose one of the largest
                technology projects and private sector
                initiatives in the state's history - plans
                to connect more than 250,000 consumers and
                small businesses to ultra-fast broadband
                Internet - one of the key pieces to the
                foundation of our country's new technology
                economy.


               That's exactly what C Spire will be doing
                this morning during a historic 10 a.m.
                press conference at its Ridgeland
                headquarters when the company unveils its
                Tech Movement program, which is designed
                to prepare and equip consumers and
                businesses to be successful in the new
                digital economy.  The program is a
                continuation of C Spire's 2013
                groundbreaking Fiber-to-the-Home
                initiative, one of the first of its type
                in the U.S. and the fastest to connect
                thousands of Mississippi consumers in nine
                communities around the state to ultra-
                fast Gigabit speed Internet access,
                digital television and home phone
                services.


               Key senior executives from C Spire,
                including CEO Hu Meena, President Stephen
                Bye and Senior Vice President Suzy Hays,
                will outline the company's plans, which
                will be rolled out in phases starting
                today.  The plans already have drawn
                widespread support and approval from U.S.
                Senator Roger Wicker, Innovate Mississippi
                President and CEO Tony Jeff, Mississippi
                Economic Development Council Executive
                Director Mary Swoope and Fiber Broadband
                Association President and CEO Heather
                Burnett Gold.


    WHEN:      Monday, September 25, 2017

               10 a.m. to 11 a.m.


    WHERE:     C Spire corporate headquarters

               1018 Highland Colony Parkway

               Ridgeland, MS 39157


    WHO:        Hu Meena, CEO, C Spire 
    Stephen Bye,
                 President, C Spire 
    Suzy Hays, Senior Vice
                 President, Consumer Markets, C Spire


    MEET ME    601.487.7989

    CONFERENCE ID: 4089

    BRIDGE:    No PIN required

View original content with multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/c-spire-to-unveil-first-phase-of-tech-movement-initiative-aimed-at-transforming-mississippi-through-technology-300524943.html

SOURCE C Spire