Change MS law to allow electric co-ops to provide high-speed internet.

I am a small business owner. I live in the rural part of Hinds county. The street I live on has ATT fiber but ATT will not provide the service. The sub station is at the end of my road and ATT will not give me or my neighbors an answer on when they will provide us service. It’s hard to run a business on multiple hot spots.

I am the director of the Practical Nursing program at Northwest Mississippi Community College. We currently have 4 campus locations, senatobia, desoto, Benton county and Lafayette county. The four campus serve students in the surrounding 11 counties. On-line capabilities are critical to higher level education. NWCC has even purchased “hot spots” for students to take home only to find out that in their rural area they cannot obtain a signal for the hot spot to work. If we expect them to pass NCLEX-PN state board examinations with limited computer support and technology we are doing the students of Mississippi as disservice. This is also a contributing factor to why students seek out of state education and leave the state of mississippi to enter the workforce.

If Chattanooga Tennessee can do it, so should we be able to do the same thing.

AT&T does not provide high speed internet where I live. Cell service is spotty. So have a satellite for my tv, and one for my internet. I support this petition, its Long over due!!

This would be such a great benefit for MS! We need this to keep MS growing in the technology world.

Please!

We both work from home and this is a must! We would do whatever we need to do. Please come and put a tower on our property!!! Old jackson road.

We need this so bad. AT&T won’t upgrade our area and will no longer supply new phone service or internet service to our area. We have been left in the dark ages.

We can’t even get cell service where I live.

This would be great.

Change

We need this badly!!!!

I support Mississippi law allowing rural electric power cooperatives to provide high-speed internet to customers! I'm a teacher and having internet more easily available would help so many of my students.

This would help out a lot with 2 kids in college and all work is done online.

Our students and teachers need reliable internet service in all parts of the state to keep up with the educational needs of the modern world.

Let’s join the 21st century!

Mississippi needs this

We need this to happen

We have two internet connections at our home and still cannot stream any type of movies. Take an hour to input our expenses into quicken when it should take minutes. Takes an hour to order clothes. We pay a monthly fee for netflix but cannot enjoy it in our home

I have to leave my house to access internet well enough to teach online. This places people who hat could be working via the internet at a disadvantage.