JACKSON -- Three telecommunications companies are getting $51.5 million to expand fast Internet service in rural parts of Mississippi that currently don't have access.
AT&T is getting $49.8 million from the Federal Communications Commission. That's enough to make service available to 134,000 customers statewide who don't have access now, and is 12 percent of the $427 million AT&T is accepting nationwide.
Windstream Communications is getting $917,000 to serve 2,760 customers in parts of eight s
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