Taking a photograph is as easy as picking up a smartphone these days. But there’s so much more possibility waiting inside your camera app.

This summer, you and your kids can discover a whole world of creativity, self-expression and storytelling by exploring your device’s smartphone capabilities and experimenting with photo subjects and locations.

Mobile devices have become a mainstay of education in recent years, with schools adopting digital-first approaches to learning across the grade spectrum. These policies are having positive effects, too, by bridging the digital divide and preparing students for a digital world.

But when devices like cell phones are not used for educational purposes, the impacts are quite the opposite — they can easily distract students from their studies and result in lower grades. About two-thirds of U.S. students find them distracting, and their use results in a decrease in long-term information retention equivalent to half a letter grade.

C Spire network technicians have been busy bolstering cell coverage and capacity in the Golden Triangle region of east-central Mississippi.

Our vast fiber network helps us bring faster speeds and more reliability than ever to home internet. But did you know it’s also a major factor in our ever-expanding wireless network?

That’s right — the same robust fiber infrastructure spanning three states and sending our internet speeds into the stratosphere also connects our wireless towers. And it’s continually growing larger and stronger.

A major educational center and the surrounding community of Hurley in Jackson County are seeing stronger cellular coverage and capacity thanks to new enhancements to the C Spire network in the area.

Good news for New Hope and the south side of Columbus, Miss.: C Spire wireless crews have added a strong new cell site to increase coverage and capacity in Lowndes County.