Three Mississippi communities pre-registered enough homeowners to qualify...

Three Mississippi communities pre-registered enough homeowners to qualify for C Spire’s 1 Gbps fiber-to-the-home broadband service. The company will now start engineering and construction of the service in parts of Horn Lake and Starkville, and the entire town of Quitman, said C Spire in a news release Tuesday (http://bit.ly/1oNq0uY). The three communities had been among nine selected by C Spire as finalists for the service, spurring drives by local government, community and business leaders to get people to pre-register with a $10 refundable deposit. The six other communities will continue their pre-registration drives, the company said. The cost to C Spire customers will be $70 a month for Internet access, $90 a month for combined Internet and home phone, $130 a month for Internet and digital TV, and $150 a month all three services. The company plans to begin the service by summer.