Dixie Electric awarded funding to help continue broadband expansion
Dixie Electric awarded funding to help continue broadband expansion By Branden Walker | April 9, 2021 at 9:15 PM CDT - Updated April 9 at 10:20 PM
LAUREL, Miss. (WDAM) - Friday was a historic day for Dixie Electric as the company was awarded funding to continue its high-speed internet expansion to rural areas.
Chairman Dane Maxwell of the Mississippi Public Service Commission signed and approved $21.7 Million for the DE FastLink Project.
“This is our time in history to bring forth the technology, high-speed internet that everybody uses today,” Maxwell said.
The DE FastLink Project is Dixie Electric’s fiber internet service launched after the pandemic showed the lack of high-speed internet in rural areas.
High-speed internet coming to over 51,000 PRVEPA members
High-speed internet coming to over 51,000 PRVEPA members - PKG By Caroline Wood | April 5, 2021 at 9:22 PM CDT - Updated April 5 at 10:29 PM
COLUMBIA, Miss. (WDAM) - Mississippi Public Service Commission Chairman Dane Maxwell issued final documents to PearlComm LLC Monday.
Maxwell’s signature marks the allocation of $25.7 million from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund.
The fund brings access to high-speed internet service to over 51,000 Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association members across 12 counties.
“It’s as big of a deal as providing power to them in 1938 when we were founded,” said Matthew Ware, Chief Executive Officer & General Manager of PRVEPA. “Now we’re giving them a new technology that I think will have the same implications to our membership as it did back then.”
Chairman Dane Maxwell of the Mississippi Public Service Commission on Monday joined leadership and staff from CoastConnect, LLC, a subsidiary of Coast Electric Power Association, to sign an order releasing $7.8 million to bring high-speed Internet to Hancock, Harrison and Pearl River counties.
âI am honored for the opportunity to sign off on projects like this that bring such a huge benefit to the people of Mississippi,â Chairman Dane Maxwell said. âWith the help of this federal funding, CoastConnect will be able to provide high-speed internet to its customers who may have never had access to it before.â
Last year, Coast Electric participated in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase I Auction process and was awarded the $7.8 million.
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