C Spire

C Spire
C Spire
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryTelecommunications
Founded1988; 36 years ago (1988)
FounderWade H. Creekmore Jr. and James H. "Jimmy" Creekmore Sr.
Headquarters,
U.S.
Number of locations
72 stores, 2 call centers, 4 data centers, 6 sales offices
Area served
  • Wireless: Mississippi and parts of Alabama and Tennessee
  • Home fiber: Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee
  • Business: nationwide in the U.S.
Key people
Suzy Hays (president and CEO)
ProductsWireless voice and data, fiber to the home, cloud services, managed IT services
ParentTelapex, Inc.
Websitecspire.com

C Spire, formerly known as Cellular South, Inc.,[1] is an American privately owned telecommunications and technology company headquartered in Ridgeland, Mississippi. The company consists of three business divisions – Wireless, Home Fiber, and Business.

C Spire owns and has access to low, mid and high-band wireless spectrum in its primary service areas. The division offers 5G and 4G LTE mobile services and has been offering wireless services since 1988. C Spire provides service in Mississippi, the Memphis Metropolitan Area, and parts of Alabama including Mobile and Baldwin County. C Spire sells devices as well as prepaid and postpaid plans.

C Spire Home Fiber, began Gigabit speed Fiber to the Home efforts in 2013, providing gigabit and multi-gigabit residential fiber internet access for consumers in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee.[2] C Spire operates over 20,000 route miles of buried fiber optic cable.

C Spire Business offers fiber-backed broadband, telephony and IT services.

C Spire is owned by the holding company Telapex, Inc.,[3] which also owns Telepak Networks, Inc., and several smaller Mississippi and Alabama telecoms.

  1. ^ "Fictitious Business Name Registration" (PDF). Business.sos.state.ms.us. Retrieved October 24, 2012.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "C Spire prepping gigabit 'Fiber to the Home' service, asks where to put it". September 24, 2013.
  3. ^ "Telapex, Inc". Telapex.com. Retrieved October 25, 2012.