TEC receives grant to deliver web entry to rural Jasper Co.

BAY SPRINGS, Miss. (WDAM) – Quick Fiber Web service is making its manner round Jasper County, accounting to TEC.

TEC, a rural broadband supplier in Mississippi, acquired a federal grant from the Neighborhood Join Grant Program. TEC mentioned they are going to use these funds to ship entry to gigabit-speed web to rural and underserved parts of Jasper County.

The corporate has made beforehand invested within the space’s broadband infrastructure.

The corporate hopes to increase its service to Paulding, Rose Hill and Newton.

“The need of high-speed web entry is gravely obvious in small-town communities,” mentioned TEC’s Vice President of Strategic Operations, Lisa Wigington. “This venture can be main progress to shut the digital divide for among the most rural parts of Jasper County. We’re very grateful for this grant, which additionally permits TEC to create a Wi-Fi hotspot location with public entry to computer systems on the Nation Nook Retailer in Newton.”

The corporate mentioned the Nation Nook Retailer will change into a Quick Fiber Web entry level.

TEC mentioned it’ll additionally present 24 months of free service and two laptops to assist make this neighborhood service doable.

“The day we are able to get everybody in these communities entry to (the) web can be an excellent day,” says Jasper County Supervisor Eddie Helms. “We don’t have it out right here; I don’t even have it the place I reside within the South half close to the Jones County line. These younger folks want it, and I hope everybody is ready to get entry to this as a result of it appears to be the best way all the pieces goes these days.”

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