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[Lettucexxxx]

I’m pretty sure CSpire/Cellular South wasn’t even around in the late 80’s. If so you had to be their very first customer. The first cell company I can even remember coming into Mississippi was Century Cellunet. I still have my original Vodaphone from them. Got it at the store they had in Highland Village.

1988. I remember my father having the mounted car phone....and then came a bag phone.

If someone tried to rob you, just hit them with the 80lbs bag, you were straight.

.....I do remember having amazing service with those Dinophones. In 1988, I was 6........and I can clearly remember the sound of my mother’s voice, chewing the **** out of my fathers ***......while he circled the gravel parking lot at the hunting camp.

The good ol days.


Archie Manning made the first call from a cell south phone.

 

[Dawgbite]

Mine is in Amory

Where is your locally owned Piggly Wiggly? Mine is in Brandon. I like shopping there. A lot of times I find things there that I'm not able to find at other grocery stores. HOWEVER, for the last 3 or 4 months the shelves are almost completely bare. I saw a news report on the store in Jackson on Meadowbrook shelves nearly bare there, also. Speculations is they are going out of business.

What you think?

I think all the Pig Wigs are independently owned. This family owns a total of three. Best meat market in North Ms hands down, Certified Angus Beef can't be beat unless you get into some Wagyu.

 

[RutherfordBHayes]

I’ve been with CellularSouth/CSpire for nearly 25 years. I’ll be leaving them this summer when my contract is up.

I have become more dependent on my smart phone. Lack of service has caused serious problems the last few years and is getting more frequent. I have been lost multiple times in strange cities as I relied on failed maps features. In Los Angeles last year, I had to walk 2 miles before I could get enough signal to get through to Uber. Los Angeles is what? 2nd largest city in the US? No service. That was really the last straw.

 

[anon1750449100]

I have T-Mobile and can stream ESPN during a game at DWS. Left CSpire years ago. Coverage and quality wasn’t enough for me. CSpire can’t compete on wireless against the big 4 because they only own spectrum in MS, FL panhandle and parts of Alabama. Their home internet is nice, but fixed wireless internet is right around the corner...

 

[ababyatemydingo]

I’m pretty sure CSpire/Cellular South wasn’t even around in the late 80’s. If so you had to be their very first customer. The first cell company I can even remember coming into Mississippi was Century Cellunet. I still have my original Vodaphone from them. Got it at the store they had in Highland Village.

From the Wikipedias:


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.[SUP][5][/SUP]

 

[friendly dawg]

which bowl games did you go to? Charolette? Jacksonville? Tampa? Nashville? Miami, and Memphis? just curious what cities you were roaming too. Those really aren't that far out of the footprint and are still in the south east. how much traveling have you done to major cities outside of the southeast?

obvious, you have a bias because you work there. You say it's negative slant and that it's just incorrect and old problems. i'm not being paid by service provider. I'm just giving my honest experience and opinion and comparison. first time poster also. do you happen to work in the marketing or sales department by chance? I'm not the only one with bad experience outside of state line. Like vegasdawg said, we aren't making it up. why would we anyway?

I have been to Jacksonville, Tampa, Nashville, Memphis. I have not been to Miami or Charlotte though. I have also traveled as far as California and New York and my coverage has never been an issue. The only times I have ever had trouble is some rural areas (I never fully lost coverage though) within the state and at our home games. Every where else I have ever been has been fine... and I work in Engineering. C Spire also had a strong presence on campus when I was there. They hosted multiple events for engineering and technology. I have seen them on campus doing events with other technology companies like Nokia and Intel. Just because they also do things at Ole Miss does not mean they are not on our campus doing good things too. I would be willing to bet that the majority of corporate workers are from MSU at C Spire.

 

[vhdawg]

CSpire's narrative about being homegrown Mississippi drives me nuts. I work for a competitor of theirs that's admittedly not based in MS, but has a running ton of Mississippi people right here in Mississippi designing, building, and maintaining our network. We're every bit as Mississippi as they are.

 

[blacklistedbully]

Which company? I like the idea of supporting Mississippi and MSU grads in particular.

 

[thatsbaseball]

Also the delta was one of the areas they focused on early for coverage....where I happened to be at the time.

 

[fader2103]

I will never go with CSpire again. They have messed up my billing too many times. Went to AT&T a few years ago and never once had a problem. MS company or not you mess with my money and make me pay more than what I owe you I will quit doing business with you.

 

[The Peeper]

I traveled MS for years and seldom if ever had problems with their service in MS no matter where I went. When I left MS I noticed the service suffered considerably. My kids as they got older started traveling a lot with school, the church, friends on vacation, etc and EVERY time they would leave MS they would call me from wherever they were from a friends cell phone and gripe about how their phone wasn't working. I spent way too much time w/ C-Spire customer service (who were always super nice) trying to tell me what to change to make it work. Seldom if ever did it help and if it did it would happen again the next time they left MS. After 14 years of being with them I cancelled. They didn't ask if there was a problem, offer a better deal, nothing. Just gave me a receipt and turned it off. I went to AT&T, got a good discount for being a government employee and haven't looked back. It would take a lot for me to go back to using the local folks, just because they're local. I've got no complaints at all w/ AT&T EXCEPT on gamedays but it was much better this past season.

 

[The Peeper]

C-Spire spent an awful lot of time this past summer digging in the Junction and all over campus for that matter putting in new infrastructure. Lots of boxes put in above and below ground and cable pulled. Don't know how it affected service on game days but it was supposed to help. If it didn't get better they wasted a lot of time and money for nothing.

 

[Nama Carl]

CSpire's narrative about being homegrown Mississippi drives me nuts. I work for a competitor of theirs that's admittedly not based in MS, but has a running ton of Mississippi people right here in Mississippi designing, building, and maintaining our network. We're every bit as Mississippi as they are.

Big difference. CSpires profits are coming home to Mississippi, where your company's do not.

 

[Trojanbulldog19]

just curious what type of applications you are running and how much data are you using while on those trips. you say you have coverage, what type of coverage are you getting? a lot of companies will claim coverage, but it's not good data coverage. it's just good enough for talk and text.

 

[RutherfordBHayes]

CSpire cell phones are cheap, but I’m either switching to Verizon or AT&T for their networks.

Now, we have CSpire fiber at the office and it’s great. It makes me wonder if they’re not spending all of their efforts on internet rather than cell towers.

 

[vhdawg]

C-Spire spent an awful lot of time this past summer digging in the Junction and all over campus for that matter putting in new infrastructure. Lots of boxes put in above and below ground and cable pulled. Don't know how it affected service on game days but it was supposed to help. If it didn't get better they wasted a lot of time and money for nothing.

(Pssst...that wasn't just CSpire)

 

[vhdawg]

Big difference. CSpires profits are coming home to Mississippi, where your company's do not.

That's stupid. What we do in MS is paid for by our profits. And we spend a lot of money in Mississippi.

 

[RocketDawg]

Looks like the only one near here is in Gurley, Alabama, kind of a wide spot in the road on the eastern side of Madison County, right before entereing Jackson County on Hwy 72.

Interesting story there. Walmart opened one of their little supermarkets there, I suppose to try to take business away from the Pig. It didn't work, and they had to close in a short time. Lots of loyalty in Gurley. Pretty sure the building became a Dollar General.