The C Spire wireless, home fiber and business networks are seeing a surge in activity like never before. A surge in data and communication needs that our team actively prepared for from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

All C Spire team members are essential to the wireless, fiber internet and business communications infrastructure across Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. During times of crisis, these essential jobs become critically important.

Every day, our team members keep our customers at the center of what they do. As they provide essential services at a time when they are needed most, we are stepping up to support them with important additions to paid-time-off policies and pay for the month of April 2020.

Working and learning from home is an adjustment many of us are now figuring out. But distance learning presents an extra challenge for students who lack reliable high-speed internet access at home.

With public WiFi locations closed under social distancing policies, we are working to bridge the digital divide to ensure students can continue learning.

In response to the ongoing coronavirus crisis, C Spire has redirected the C Spire Health telemedicine app exclusively to aid the University of Mississippi Medical Center in diagnosing and triaging possible cases of COVID-19.

C Spire is taking steps to keep its wireless, broadband and business customers connected during this time of uncertainty.

On March 13, the FCC announced commitments by dozens of the nation’s broadband and telecommunications service providers to work with customers negatively impacted by the current public health emergency. C Spire said it supports the FCC’s efforts and is working with customers to make special arrangements.

Seeking medical care can make us feel vulnerable in more ways than one. We let our family doctors see us at our worst, so we can get back to feeling our best quickly. There’s no question that seeing a familiar face in our weakest moments is a comforting feeling.

But there are times when seeing a medical professional in-person isn’t ideal. When you need treatment for seasonal allergies, a sinus infection or nausea and the waiting room is crowded with flu patients, putting as much space between yourself and contagious illnesses is simply smart self-care.