Last mile and middle mile BB deploy across the state of MS consisting of ten unique projects that are designed to bring qualified BB to a total of 12,487 unserved HH across ten counties

This application was submitted by the broadband expansion and accessibility of mississippi (beam) who has entered into an eligible covered partnership with eight different BB providers to accomplish the project. The BB providers in the covered partnership are (1) BAY springs telephone, (2) bruce telephone, (3) c spire, (4) cablesouth media 3, (5) franklin telephone, (6) maxxsouth, (7) uplink, and (8) weconnect communications.activities:1. Smith CTY, serving 756 locations. 126 miles ftth BAY springs will offer GB speed at $80.2. Calhoun CTY, serving 1,199 unserved HHS. The ftth project will construct 154 miles of buried fiber. Bruce telephone will offer BB service $50 to GB speed for $80 3. C spire in issaquena CTY, serving 120 HHS, 10 businesses, & 2 AIS. The ftth project will construct 10 miles of fiber. C spire will offer BB service at $80 for GB speed.4. C spire in madison CTY, serving 101 HHS & 32 businesses. The ftth project will construct 10.7 miles of fiber. C spire will offer BB service at $80 for GB speed. 5. Collins, 2,162 locations, 19 mainline miles of a fiber/coax network to docsis 3.1 tech. Cablesouth will offer BB service from 250 mbps at $70 to GB speed at $90. 6. Lincoln CTY, serving 604 HHS, 4 businesses, & 2 AIS. The ftth project will construct 68 miles of buried fiber. Franklin telephone will offer BB service from 500 mbps at $85 to GB speed at $100. 7. Project 7 benton CTY, serving 664 HHS. The ftth project will construct 91 miles of new fiber. Maxxsouth will offer BB service from 500 mbps at $65 to GB speed at $80. Maxxsouth BB will deploy a symm ftth (gpon) tech with a min of up to 1 GIG download & 1 GIG upload speeds. 8. Project 8 pontotoc CTY, serving 632 locations. The ftth project will construct 91 miles of new fiber. Maxxsouth will offer BB service from 500 mbps at $65 to GB speed at $80. Maxxsouth BB will deploy a symm ftth (gpon) tech with a min of up to 1 GIG download & 1 GIG upload speeds. 9. Uplink coahoma CTY. The total CTY population is 22,124. The project will serve 6,295 HHS, providing 1,837 HHS with fiber & 4,458 with wireless. IT will also serve 10 AIS. The project will include 90.87 miles of fiber construction. Uplink will offer BB service from 500 mbps at $75 to GB speed at $100. The provider will be using a mix of tech, deploying fiber to the home in areas of high density & using wireless tech in areas of low density where the cost becomes excessive to deploy FO. 10. Project 10 is led by weconnect, calhoun CTY, serving 163 HHS, 1 business, & an unspecified number of AIS. The ftth project will construct 27 miles of buried fiber. We connect will provide BB service from 250 mbps at $50 to GB speed at $80. The project plans to leverage existing fiber & continue building a network using a ftth architecture utilizing (PON) tech & topology.outcome: the 10 projects will construct 602 new fiber miles and to directly connect 12,487 unserved HH with up to 1/1 gbps service. This project will also connect 256 bus and approximately 26 CAI.beneficiaries: the ten projects that this covered partnership plans to pursue will bring qualified BB service to a large POP of rural MS residents that are currently unserved.subrecip act: the eight isps in this covered partnership are subrecipients of federal funds for this project. SOW incl construction and providing service for their respective projects in their designated service areas.