RIDGELAND, Miss. – August 5, 2025 – C Spire, a Mississippi-based advanced technology solutions company, announced today that it has won gold awards for best cell phone provider and best internet service provider as part of the Sun Herald’s 2025 Best of Coastal Mississippi award program.
The Best of Coastal Mississippi highlights and celebrates the businesses, people, and places coastal readers and residents vote for. More than 2,300 businesses and professional offices competed in 262 categories. In 2024, C Spire also won gold awards for best cell phone provider and best internet service provider.
“The Mississippi Gulf Coast is important to C Spire, and we are thrilled to receive gold awards again for best cell phone provider and best internet,” said Craig Jackson, senior vice president and general manager for consumer markets at C Spire. “We look forward to helping residents and businesses on the Mississippi Gulf Coast unlock technology’s greatest potential and transforming how they connect, live and work.”
C Spire, then operating as Cellular South, made the first phone call on its network in February of 1988 from Gulfport—the call featured recently retired NFL quarterback Archie Manning and Trent Lott, who represented Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives at the time.
C Spire has wireless retail stores in Bay St. Louis, Biloxi, D’Iberville, Gulfport, Lucedale, Ocean Springs, Pascagoula, Picayune and Wiggins, and first launched fiber internet service in 2014 to cities across Mississippi and has built a thriving fiber network spanning more than 150 communities in Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Tennessee.
The complete list of 2025 Best of Coastal Mississippi winners can be found at Category Landing Page | Best of Coastal Mississippi.
About C Spire
C Spire is a diversified telecommunications and technology services company that provides world-class, customer-inspired wireless communications, fiber consumer internet access as well as a full suite of dedicated Internet, wireless, IP Voice, data, cloud and managed IT services for businesses and enterprises. This news release and other announcements are available at www.cspire.com/news. For more information about C Spire, visit www.cspire.com or follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/cspire or X at www.x.com/cspire.
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