C Spire

Our company has been in the telecommunications business now for over 60 years. In 2013, we're celebrating our 25th anniversary in the wireless business. We started as Cellular South back in February of 1988 on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, with the first call being made from then quarterback Archie Manning to Trent Lott in Washington, very first commercial call that was produced on the Cellular South Network. We started with eight employees, several of those are still with us today. We've now grown to over 1,200 employees across the southeast part of the country. Over the 25-year history of our company, were the first to bring many things to cons Way back, were the first to bring wireless communications to many markets. Later, were the first to bring high-speed data across most of these markets. While we've seen significant growth across our footprint over the 25-year history of our company, the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the South Mississippi areas, including Hattiesburg, Laurel, all of the coastal areas have all been very, very important to Seaspire. We typically look at these markets to be some of the first areas where we roll new products and services. Also the way that were able to support the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the surrounding areas in times of need. We're very pleased over the 25 years we've been in business that we've been able to contribute in so many different ways. We have been a contributor to the economic growth in Mississippi, our home state, as well as areas outside of Mississippi. That'something we're very pleased with. We continue to invest millions and millions of dollars in capital improvements and capital investments into the network, which is very important to the cons Mississippi Delta is very important to Seaspire. Actually, some of the first markets that we started in way back in the late 1980s and the early 1990s were some of the markets in the Mississippi Delta. These markets, these areas remain very important to us. While we've continued to experience enormous growth over the years and have become the largest privately held wireless carrier in the United States, we're very proud and pleased to continue to call Mississippi our home. We'll continue to expand the personalized wireless services as well as continue to expand 4G LTE. We're also very excited about our Seaspire business solutions, which is our business sales group that focuses on wireless communications as well as HD voice and internet solutions for business customers.