TEC wins big for access to rural broadband in state | Business

TEC, a Bay Springs-based fiber broadband provider, will bring fast fiber internet to more than 23,000 families and businesses in rural Mississippi after being awarded more than $40 million to help reach that goal. 

TEC is one of 386 competing companies in the recent Federal Communications Commission auction, which awarded $9 billion for the provision of broadband internet to unserved and underserved areas throughout the United States. TEC won more than $41.2 million in funding to build and deliver broadband access to Jasper, Covington, Smith, Copiah, Lawrence, Lincoln, Newton, Rankin, Scott and Simpson counties. With TEC’s additional investment exceeding $54.6 million, the total project cost will be almost $96 million in total build-out and construction and expand TEC’s fiber network to improve communication, commerce, education and quality of life for many rural Mississippians. 

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