C Spire, the Mobile Company, to Build Fixed Gigabit Networks in Mississippi

C Spire Wireless (formerly Cellular South), the Mississippi-based mobile service provider, now will build gigabit fixed networks for Internet access, video and voice services to several cities and towns in Mississippi.

Internet access will be available for $80 a month, $100 a month for combined Internet and home phone, $140 a month for Internet and digital TV, and $160 a month for the entire package.

Batesville, Clinton, Corinth, Hattiesburg, Horn Lake, McComb, Quitman, Ridgeland and Starkville were selected from 33 cities and towns who submitted applications to be the first to get gigabit access from C Spire.

That C spire Wireless is making a move into fixed access networks for the first time tells you something about the perception of opportunity in the gigabit networks business.