by Stephen McDill Published: February 8,2013
Tags: C Spire Wireless, Cellular South, duopoly, Hu Meena, iPhone 5, Jim Richmond, Jimmy Creekmore, personalized wireless, telecommunication, Trent Lott, Wade Creekmore
It was 1988 —the year of denim jackets, Rick Astley, “Roseanne” and a new telephone company on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. While C Spire Wireless founders Jimmy and Wade Creekmore had been in the telephone business since the 1940s, the company then known as Cellular South began on Feb. 4, 1988 as a player in [...] [...]
Its been 25 years since former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning picked up the phone and called then Mississippi congressman Trent Lott. That historic call signaled the start of business for a little South Mississippi telephone company called Cellular South. The Ridgeland-based telecom now known as C Spire Wireless is celebrating a quarter-century as [...] [...]
by Stephen McDill Published: December 25,2011
Tags: Apple, AT&T, C Spire CEO Hu Meena, C Spire Wireless, cease fire, Cellular South, corporate makeover, iPhone, iPhone 4S, MBJ’s Top 5 stories of the year, Metro PCS, personalized wireless, Rural Cellular Association, telecommunications, U.S. Cellular, Verizon Wireless
It was a double-barrel of news with a kick that stunned the U.S. telecommunications industry. Cellular South, the Ridgeland-based company billed as the nation’s largest private wireless provider, announced in September that it was undergoing a massive corporate makeover. The end result was C Spire Wireless. Analysts saw the name change as signs that the [...] [...]
Cellular South recently changed its name to C Spire. I’m sure they paid a marketing firm a lot of money for that name. And I’m sure the marketing firm paid a lot of focus group people to sit around and rate various names. But, for the life of me, I can’t understand how they landed [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 21,2011
Tags: agriculture, Apple, Apple iPhone 4S, banking, Banking & Finance, C Spire, Cat Island, Cellular South, Downtown Jackson, economic development, finance, immigration, iPhone, iPhone 4S, JACKSON, MBJ, Mississippi Business Journal, pumpkins, tourism, voter I.D.
In this week’s MBJ — THE NATIONAL TELECOM TAKE ON C SPIRE: Stephen McDill asks national telecom experts what they think of the new marriage between Apple Inc. and Ridgeland-based C Spire. You might be surprised at what they told the Mississippi Business Journal. Also in this week’s paper: >> VOTER ID: Will the National [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 19,2011
Tags: 4G, acquisition, Alltel, Apple iPhone 4S, AT&T, C Spire, Cellular South, FierceWireless, Hu Meena, iPhone 5, IPO, Jimmy Creekmore, LTE, mergers and acquisition, smartphone, Steve Jobs, T-Mobile, Verizon Communications
PRE-REGISTRATION BEGINS TODAY; DEVICE WILL LAUNCH IN COMING WEEKS RIDGELAND — As the Mississippi Business Journal reported several weeks ago, C Spire, the regional wireless carrier previously known as Cellular South, will have the newest iPhone from Apple to offer its customers. C Spire announced today that it will launch iPhone 4S in the U.S. [...] [...]
RIDGELAND- C Spire Wireless, the country’s largest privately-owned wireless provider, launched retail operations in its own Ridgeland backyard on Monday. MBJ-TV caught up with spokesman Dave Miller who explains how the company, previously known as Cellular South, chose its new name. [...]
In this week’s MBJ, Stephen McDill broke the national news that Cellular South is changing its name to C Spire Wireless. Cellular South is the nation’s largest privately-owned wireless company. The official announcement was made on the website www.personalizedwireless.com. Speculation had run rampant all week that hat the company was making major changes to its [...] [...]
by Stephen McDill Published: September 22,2011
Tags: agriculture, Apple, automobile industry, banking and finance, C Spire Wireless, casinos, Cellular South, Congress, construction, disaster, disaster recovery, economic development, economy, education, elections, employment, energy, environment, federal agency, federal government, gaming, healthcare, higher education, hospitality, investing, iPhone5, jobs, manufacturing, mergers and acquisitions, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, municipal government, offshore drilling, oil and gas, oil spill, publicly traded company, real estate, recession, retail, Ridgeland, severe weather, state agency, state government, technology, tourism, transportation, travel, unemployment, utilities, Weather, www.personalizedwireless.com
On Monday, Cellular South will get a new name — C Spire Wireless — and the company says it will also beome the nation’s first wireless provider to introduce personalized wireless services. “We have entered a new era in wireless – an era centered on broadband networks, mobile computing devices and now personalized services. Completing [...] [...]
RIDGELAND- Cellular South’s Jeff Cook showcases the Ridgeland telecom’s newest devices including the Blackberry Playbook and the Samsung Galaxy. [...]
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