Clinton becomes first Mississippi city to qualify at least eight areas for C Spire's historic 1 Gbps Fiber to the Home Internet technology initiative

Hinds County town turns another area "green" as part of nation's first and only statewide rollout of 100 times faster Internet access

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Aug 20, 2015, 01:18 ET

CLINTON, Miss., Aug. 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Homeowner pre-registration exceeded the required threshold in an eighth area of Clinton this week – helping the city expand eligibility for C Spire's ultra-fast 1 Gbps (Gigabit per second) Fiber to the Home Internet and related Super^TM HD TV and home phone services.

Clinton became the first Mississippi city this week to qualify eight areas for C Spire's 1 Gbps Fiber to the Home Internet technology initiative, which offers consumers the fastest consumer Internet access available in the U.S. today.

Municipal leaders and C Spire officials announced today that Clinton's Countrywood-Olde Vineyard fiberhood reached its pre-registration target on Tuesday and now joins the Southern Oaks, Hunter's Ridge-Indian Trails, Cascades, Bruenburg North, Bruenburg South, Lakeridge and Linda Drive-Copper Creek-Pinehaven Road (Eastside) fiberhoods, which qualified for the 100 times faster Internet earlier this year.

The Ridgeland-based telecommunications and technology services company expects to finish engineering and begin construction in the latest Clinton fiberhood by the end of the year with commercial service available in March 2016. Commercial service was activated in the Southern Oaks and Hunter's Ridge-Indian Trails fiberhoods in June and is expected to be available in the remaining five fiberhoods by the end of the year.

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