Meena chairing RCA board
Hu Meena, president and CEO of Cellular South, has been elected chairman of the board of the Rural Cellular Association (RCA), the nation’s leading industry group representing competitive wireless...
View ArticleWireless Wars
It’s a call that has the entire U.S. telecommunications industry on hold. The Federal Communications Commission last week stopped the clock on a review of T-Mobile USA’s proposed $39-billion...
View ArticleC Spire Wireless Launches
RIDGELAND- C Spire Wireless, the country’s largest privately-owned wireless provider, launched retail operations in its own Ridgeland backyard on Monday. MBJ-TV caught up with spokesman Dave Miller who...
View ArticleUPDATE: C Spire to offer iPhone 4S; fourth company to do so and ahead of...
PRE-REGISTRATION BEGINS TODAY; DEVICE WILL LAUNCH IN COMING WEEKS RIDGELAND — As the Mississippi Business Journal reported several weeks ago, C Spire, the regional wireless carrier previously known as...
View ArticleTHE TECH 21
Mississippi’s tech scene is on the rise, thanks to flashy successes like Hu Meena’s blockbuster deal with Apple to get the iPhone for C Spire and Joel Bomgar, whose Bomgar Box is taking the world by...
View ArticleMeena makes ranking
Fierce Wireless has named Hu Meena, president and CEO of C Spire Wireless, as one of the 25 most powerful people in wireless. He ranked 20th on the list. Fierce Wireless wrote: “Meena was general...
View ArticleC Spire Wireless celebrates quarter century of telecommunications
It was 1988 —the year of denim jackets, Rick Astley, “Roseanne” and a new telephone company on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. While C Spire Wireless founders Jimmy and Wade Creekmore had been in the...
View ArticleAnother fiberhood qualifies for C Spire 1-gigabit Internet service
STARKVILLE — C Spire reports that a homeowner pre-registration exceeded the required threshold in a second area of the city of Starkville over the weekend — helping it qualify for the company’s...
View ArticleC Spire’s fiber to home program gets recognition
RIDGELAND — C Spire’s ultra-high speed 1 Gbps (Gigabit per second) fiber to the home initiative in Mississippi has been selected by Broadband Communities for a 2014 Cornerstone Award. C Spire...
View ArticleHU MEENA — Moving Mississippi schools into the technology fast lane requires...
Technology is rapidly changing how we educate our children. From iPads and tablets to laptop computers, today’s classrooms look nothing like those from even a few years ago. To power this quantum...
View ArticleC Spire, UM installing Wi-Fi network at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium
OXFORD and RIDGELAND — With the 2014 college football season just around the corner, Ole Miss fans will soon be flocking to Vaught-Hemingway Stadium with smartphones and other connected devices in hand...
View ArticleJackson to get C Spire’s high-speed internet
Special to the MBJ Jackson municipal leaders and C Spire executives announced an agreement today help Jackson become one of nation’s most technologically advanced cities by offering residents...
View ArticleCity of Jackson, C Spire look to boost signup for Fiber to the Home service
JACKSON and RIDGELAND — The city of Jackson is upping its bid to bring 1 Gbps (Gigabit per second) Fiber to the Home broadband Internet access from C Spire. Yesterday, municipal leaders and C Spire...
View ArticleRidgeland neighborhood qualifies for C Spire fiber network
RIDGELAND, Mississippi – The Ridgeland neighborhood of Bridgewater has become the fourth area of the state to qualify for C Spire’s high-speed 1-Gigabit-per-second fiber to the home Internet and...
View ArticleSchool district getting new technology thanks to state law
Students and teachers in one Mississippi school district should be better prepared thanks to receiving new technology under a new state law. The Booneville School District is part of a $1.2 million...
View ArticleC Spire to begin building Fiber to the Home infrastructure
C Spire’s plan of building a high-speed Internet network in selected communities has reached another milestone. C Spire will hold a news conference tomorrow in Ridgeland when the company will announce...
View ArticleHU MEENA — Fiber fever spreads throughout the Jackson metro area
Few people noticed the lightbulb. The innovation that has come to be the very symbol of, well, a great idea. No one was against it, but few saw the potential. And who could blame them? This was a...
View ArticleHU MEENA — Can a petabyte a day keep the doctor away?
Technology likes to show off. It’s easy to notice when the latest innovation has arrived because when technology gets better, we notice. In education-tech, we heralded the arrival of the SMART Board...
View ArticleHU MEENA — Now Streaming: The digitization of U.S. health care
Today’s society will be remembered as the first wave of instant access culture. Need proof? There are ghosts of companies wandering the corporate graveyard, howling at the moon because they couldn’t...
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