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Tombigbee Electric bringing fiber Internet to homes, businesses in Lee, Itawamba counties

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By RBNews – August 10, 2019

TUPELO, Miss. – Tombigbee Electric Power Association (TEPA), a non-profit, member-owned electric power association, today announced its plans to move ahead with a fiber-to-the-home network buildout to serve 100 percent of the co-op’s 43,950 members. Tombigbee is one of the first electric power associations in Mississippi to make this move.

The broadband deployment, projected to cost approximately $95 million and span TEPA’s 8 counties predominately Lee and Itawamba Counties, was approved by the TEPA Board of Directors at its August 8, 2019 regular board meeting and publicly announced at its Annual Meeting, Saturday, August 10, 2019 in Tupelo, dependent upon amendment of its articles of incorporation. As a next step TEPA will hold a membership meeting on September 16, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. at its Auburn Road offices to amend its articles to proceed pursuant to the Mississippi Electric Power Association Law and Broadband Enabling Act of 2019.

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Conexon works with Rural Electric Cooperatives to bring fiber to the home in rural communities. The company is composed of professionals who have worked in electric cooperatives and the telecommunications industry, and offer decades of individual experience in business planning, building networks, marketing and selling telecommunications. Conexon offers its electric cooperative clients end-to-end broadband deployment and operations support, from a project’s conception all the way through to its long-term sustainability. It works with clients to analyze economic feasibility, secure financing, design the network, manage construction, provide operational support, optimize business performance and determine optimal partnerships. To date, Conexon has assisted nearly 200 electric cooperatives, nearly 50 of which are deploying fiber networks, with more than 150,000 connected fiber-to-the-home subscribers across the U.S. The company has secured more than a quarter of a billion dollars in federal and state grants for its clients.

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