High-speed internet coming to over 51,000 PRVEPA members High-speed internet coming to over 51,000 PRVEPA members - PKG By Caroline Wood | April 5, 2021 at 9:22 PM CDT - Updated April 5 at 10:29 PM COLUMBIA, Miss. (WDAM) - Mississippi Public Service Commission Chairman Dane Maxwell issued final documents to PearlComm LLC Monday. Maxwell’s signature marks the allocation of $25.7 million from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. The fund brings access to high-speed internet service to over 51,000 Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association members across 12 counties. “It’s as big of a deal as providing power to them in 1938 when we were founded,” said Matthew Ware, Chief Executive Officer & General Manager of PRVEPA. “Now we’re giving them a new technology that I think will have the same implications to our membership as it did back then.”