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In 2011, C Spire became the fourth wireless carrier in the U.S., behind AT&T, Sprint and Verizon and ahead of T-Mobile, to be able to sell the iPhone.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2011/11/03/tech/mobile/c-spire-iphone/index.html</ref> |
In 2011, C Spire became the fourth wireless carrier in the U.S., behind AT&T, Sprint and Verizon and ahead of T-Mobile, to be able to sell the iPhone.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2011/11/03/tech/mobile/c-spire-iphone/index.html</ref> |
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In 2013, C Spire created Vu Digital, LLC as a wholly owned subsidiary.<ref name="McDill2013-08-02">{{cite news|last=McDill |first=Stephen |date=2013-08-02 |title=Ridgeland-based Vu Digital gives media content, websites a personal touch |url=http://msbusiness.com/2013/08/ridgeland-based-vu-digital-gives-media-content-websites-a-personal-touch/ |newspaper=[[Mississippi Business Journal]] |accessdate=2015-11-18 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118055038/http://msbusiness.com/2013/08/ridgeland-based-vu-digital-gives-media-content-websites-a-personal-touch/ |archivedate=2015-11-18 |url-status=dead |df= }}</ref> The name "Vu" is pronounced "view" and is inspired by the phrase "your view of things".<ref name="McDill2013-08-02" /> Vu is used as a web content aggregator with heuristics, allowing it to improve its aggregation selections based on user preferences.<ref name="McDill2013-08-02" /> Its initial product was "a cloud-based digital profiling and analytics system" that provided "web personalization". Digital announced Video-To-Data analysis and metadata tagging in May 2015.<ref name="McDill2013-08-02" /><ref name="Ha2015-05-04">{{cite news|last=Ha |first=Anthony |date=2015-05-04 |title=Vu Digital Translates Videos Into Structured Data |url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/05/04/video-to-data/ |publisher=[[TechCrunch]] |accessdate=2015-11-18 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117061716/http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/04/video-to-data/ |archivedate=2015-11-17 |url-status=dead |df= }}</ref> Vu Video-to-Data (V2D) translates video images and audio to text, affording video producers the ability to tag their content with metadata making it more searchable.<ref name="Chandler2015-05-07">{{cite news|last=Chandler |first=Clay |date=2015-05-07 |title=Video-to-data technology will be 'transformative' |url=http://www.clarionledger.com/story/money/business/2015/05/07/video-data-technology-will-transformative/70977508/ |newspaper=[[The Clarion-Ledger]] |accessdate=2016-02-02 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6ezNnR987?url=http://www.clarionledger.com/story/money/business/2015/05/07/video-data-technology-will-transformative/70977508/ |archivedate=2016-02-02 |url-status=dead |df= }}</ref><ref name="Winslow2015-05-05">{{cite news|last=Winslow |first=George |date=2015-05-05 |title=Vu Digital Launches V2D |url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/technology/vu-digital-launches-v2d/140578 |newspaper=[[Broadcasting & Cable]] |accessdate=2015-11-18 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118055025/http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/technology/vu-digital-launches-v2d/140578 |archivedate=2015-11-18 |url-status=dead |df= }}</ref> |
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==References== |
==References== |
Revision as of 20:23, 29 October 2019
C Spire | |
Company type | Subsidiary |
Industry | Telecommunications |
Founded | 1988 |
Founder | Wade H. Creekmore, Jr. and James H. "Jimmy" Creekmore, Sr. |
Headquarters | , United States |
Number of locations | 72 stores, 2 call centers, 1 data center |
Area served | Memphis metropolitan area Mississippi Alabama Florida Panhandle |
Key people | Hu Meena – CEO |
Products | Wireless voice and data, Fiber to the Home, Cloud Services, |
Parent | Telapex, Inc. |
Website | cspire |
C Spire, formerly known as Cellular South, Inc.[1], is a privately-owned technology company headquartered in Ridgeland, Mississippi. The company consists of three business divisions – C Spire Wireless, C Spire Home, and C Spire Business.
C Spire Wireless is the seventh-largest wireless carrier in the United States[2] and the largest privately-held mobile communications company. C Spire operates more than 1,200 cell sites with our 9,000 route miles of buried fiber optic cable. C Spire owns and has access to low, mid and high-band wireless spectrum in its primary service areas. The unit offers 4G LTE mobile services and is investing for 5G, the next generation of cellular service. C Spire has customers in Mississippi, the Memphis Metropolitan Area, the Florida Panhandle, and parts of Alabama including Mobile. C Spire sells plans and devices for prepaid and postpaid customers and was the first wireless carrier to offer free incoming calls to those customers.
C Spire Home, which launched one of the nation’s first Gigabit speed Fiber to the Home efforts in 2013, provides 1,000 Megabits per second internet access, live streaming TV and digital home phone services to thousands of consumers in more than 20 Mississippi markets.[3]
C Spire Business offers full-stack managed services data and information technology provider with over 500 service professionals, multiple data centers and operation of over 9,000 route miles of fiber optic infrastructure that offer world-class voice, data, cloud and managed services to small, medium and large businesses and enterprises.
C Spire is owned by the holding company Telapex, Inc.,[4] which also owns Telepak Networks, Inc., and several smaller Mississippi telecoms.
Growth and recognition
Since 1999, C Spire has invested more than $700 million USD in its wireless network, including constructing 1,403 cell sites, a high-speed wireless broadband network and a permanent microwave ring for redundancy across the Gulf Coast region.[5]
In 2006 the firm opened its first sales center outside of its native network footprint.[6] In 2009, the company purchased Alabama-based Corr Wireless, which expanded its coverage in Alabama and moved it into Georgia for the first time (in 2013 Corr Wireless was subsequently sold to AT&T[7]).
The company’s wireless division announced on September 22, 2011 that it planned on rebranding from Cellular South to C Spire Wireless to be put into effect on September 26 of that year.
In 2018, the company purchased Teklinks, based in Birmingham, Alabama, to expand their footprint in the commercial and enterprise business, as well as their geographical footprint in the southeast.[8]
C Spire received CableFax's Top Ops Independent Technology award in 2018 for its C Spire TV platform.[9]
In June 2019, C Spire Business was ranked 13th on the Channel Futures list of top IT managed service providers worldwide.[10]
In Oct. 2019, C Spire announced the launch of C Spire Health, a mobile app to provide health care for people in Mississippi, especially those in rural and under served areas, with minor ailments.[11]
Philanthropy
C Spire has launched the Tech Movement, a program focused on three areas of technology - expanding technology education for students, developing technology innovation programs and expanding broadband access in communities across Mississippi.[12] As part of the Tech Movement, C Spire offers C3, the C Spire Coding Challenge, a coding competition to help teach coding skills to young people.[13] The company also has presented more than USD$3 million through scholarships and grants, including the C Spire-Nokia Bell Labs Fellowship for undergraduates in engineering and computer science.[14]
In 2019, C Spire announced the Rural Broadband Consortium, a partnership between C Spire, Microsoft, Siklu, Airspan and Nokia, to research how high-speed internet can be brought to rural America affordably.[15]
C Spire also funds the C Spire Foundation. The goal of the foundation is to improve the quality of life in the communities served by C Spire.[16]
History
Cellular South, Inc. began its wireless service on the Mississippi Gulf Coast on February 4, 1988, using AMPS technology. Former football quarterback Archie Manning made the company's inaugural call from Gulfport, Mississippi to then U.S. Representative Trent Lott in Washington, D.C.[17]
In 2011, C Spire became the fourth wireless carrier in the U.S., behind AT&T, Sprint and Verizon and ahead of T-Mobile, to be able to sell the iPhone.[18]
References
- ^ "Fictitious Business Name Registration" (PDF). Business.sos.state.ms.us. Retrieved 2012-10-24.[permanent dead link]
- ^ TELCOMA (2 September 2015). "list of mobile network operators of United States". 5G, 4G LTE, 3G, 2G, IOT, Big Data Training and Certification. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
- ^ https://www.engadget.com/2013/09/24/c-spire-plans-gigabit-fiber-to-the-home
- ^ "Telapex, Inc". Telapex.com. Retrieved 2012-10-25.
- ^ "View Article". Technologyalliance.ms. Archived from the original on 2013-02-19. Retrieved 2012-10-25.
- ^ dynamics, MVNO (October 21, 2011). "C Spire to offer iPhone". MVNO Dynamics. Archived from the original on December 22, 2016. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
- ^ "AT&T to buy spectrum, 21,000 customers from C Spire's Corr subsidiary". FierceWireless. 2013-04-05. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
- ^ "C Spire Acquires TekLinks for Managed Cloud Business Services". 2018-06-26.
- ^ https://www.cablefax.com/event/2018-cablefax-top-ops
- ^ https://www.cspire.com/cms/news/wireless/32200001/C%20Spire%20Business%20Named%20One%20of%20World%E2%80%99s%20Top%20Managed%20Service%20Providers%20in%202019/
- ^ https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/c-spire-university-of-mississippi-medical-center-debut-new-mobile-health-app-300941656.html
- ^ https://www.cspire.com/cms/wireless/tech-movement/
- ^ https://www.cspire.com/cms/wireless/cspire-coding-challenge/
- ^ https://www.cspire.com/cms/wireless/careers-belllabs/#/
- ^ https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/c-spire-rural-broadband-consortium-steps-up-effort-to-bridge-digital-divide-launches
- ^ https://www.cspire.com/company_info/about/programs/foundation.jsp
- ^ History/Timeline Archived December 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ https://www.cnn.com/2011/11/03/tech/mobile/c-spire-iphone/index.html