From: "Macke, Andy" <Andy_Macke@cable.comcast.com> Date: October 3, 2013 10:15:45 AM EDT To: "abailey17@gmail.com" <abailey17@gmail.

com> Subject: FW: CSpire

Andy Macke Vice President, Government & Community Affairs Comcast Cable Communications P: 770. !."7#$ C: #7$.#%$.$0$& andy'macke(cable.comcast.com
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All: ,till some bu33 around *uesday4s 56iber to t+e 7ome8 announcement. *+is is a -rivate com-any based in )id2eland. 9elo: are some estimates of t+eir o-erations. ;ireless Customers: %m Customer ,ub Area: Mem-+is, All of M,, ,out+ Alabama, 6lorida Pan+andle <stimated )evenues: =%b>year ?:ned 6iber @et:ork: &,000 miles Planned investment for 6**7: =%00m Aadditional % 00 milesB ?t+er entities: *ele-ak Ao-erates t+eir fiber net:orkB

C Spire fiber optics create community buzz

Posted: Sep 25, 2013 6:25 PM CDT Updated: Sep 25, 2013 9:14 PM CDT 9y Courtney Ann Cackson D bio E email

)F/G<GA@/, M, AMississi--i @e:s @o:B D Ff youHre lookin2 for a faster internet connection, one mi2+t be around t+e corner. Goo2le 6iber is in a fe: cities across t+e country ri2+t no:. C ,-ire says t+ey are different because t+ey -lan to make it available to multi-le communities in Mississi--i. *+e 2round:ork for C ,-ireHs ne: I6iber to 7omeI service is already in -lace. I*oday :e +ave about &,000 miles of fiber in t+e 2round,I eJ-lained Cared 9aumann, C ,-ire 9rand Product Mana2er. *+ey -lan to :ork off t+at eJistin2 infrastructure and eJtend it to nei2+bor+oods. *+e result :ill be faster internet s-eeds. IFtHs Kust t+e -i-e t+at -rovides you :it+ t+e eJcellent resources t+at are 2oin2 to be out t+ere today or :+o kno:s :+at else is comin2 in t+e future,I 9aumann said. *+ey -lan to add %, 00 more miles of fiber in t+e neJt year and a +alf. Fn t+e -ast :+en everyt+in2 :as analo2 it :ould take about %&&,000 co--er :ires to send t+e amount of data t+at could no: be transferred over one sin2le +airDlike fiber strand. *+e fibers are currently runnin2 t+rou2+ more t+an 0 Mississi--i cities. Cason /ean :it+ t+e Mississi--i 9roadband Connect Coalition says t+at com-etition factor is a 2ood one. ILou +el- t+em understand t+at broadband +as a lot of Muality of life issues,I described /ean. ,tarkville +as already started a *:itter cam-ai2n to be t+e first community c+osen. I*+e ability to +ave +i2+Ds-eed internet is as muc+ an economic develo-ment issue today as +avin2 -i-es or electricity or an industrial site available,I /ean said.