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.”
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COLUMBIA, Miss. (WDAM) - Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association is launching a fiber-to-the-home network to serve all of its 51,000 members in its service territory.
The Internet service will provide broadband speed and capabilities, as well as phone service.
PRVEPA’s 5-year deployment will cover 4,700 miles of fiber and all 12 counties served by the co-op. Fiber construction is expected to start in summer 2021, with the first members connected by the third quarter of 2021.