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CoastConnect gets $7.8 million to provide internet to rural areas CoastConnect gets $7.8 million to provide internet to rural areas By Andrés Fuentes | April 5, 2021 at 6:22 PM CDT - Updated April 5 at 7:04 PM KILN, Miss. (WLOX) - Across Mississippi, efforts are underway to provide high-tech internet service to some of the state’s most underserved communities. “Mississippi is always last in a lot of areas, but we won’t be this time,” said Mississippi Public Service Commissioner for the Southern District Dane Maxwell. Excitement was in the air Monday after CoastConnect received an eligible telecommunications carrier certification from the commission, which essentially allows the company to receive $7.8 million from the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund.

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