Cellular South customers can cast unlimited votes for their favorite pageant contestants
VICKSBURG, Miss. - (June 1, 2005) – The Miss Mississippi Corporation announces its first-ever viewer's choice contest, an exclusive text messaging competition presented by wireless sponsor Cellular South. The Cellular South Viewer's Choice Scholarship winner, to be determined by a tally of total votes text messaged to Cellular South, will receive a $2,500 scholarship, among other prizes.
The Miss Mississippi Unlimited Nationwide Text Messaging contest is managed by Cellular South as a separate program that has no bearing on official judging of the Miss Mississippi pageant and no relationship to the winner or finalists in the Miss Mississippi pageant competition.
Voting opens at 6 a.m. on June 1 and ends at 9 p.m. on July 9, the evening of the pageant finals. Votes can be cast by Cellular South text messaging customers at any time during the voting period. Voting opportunities also will be available to any pageant attendees on-site each evening of the competition, July 6- 9, through Cellular South wireless phones to be set up in the lobby of the Vicksburg Convention Center.
The winner of the Cellular South Viewer's Choice $2,500 Scholarship will be announced July 9 during the live broadcast of the pageant, just prior to the announcement and crowning of the new Miss Mississippi. The viewer's choice winner also will receive a free wireless phone and one year of free service from Cellular South.
Cellular South text messaging customers, and anyone on-site during the pageant competition, can cast an unlimited number of votes for one or more pageant contestants by sending the contestant's assigned number in a text message to “MISS” (6477). Numbers – from 1 to 42 – are assigned in alphabetical order according to local pageant titles (i.e. Miss Alcorn County is #1 and Miss William Carey College is #42).
For a listing of viewer's choice contestant numbers, visit missmississippipageant.com, cellularsouth.com or any Cellular South retail location.
About Cellular South
The company is the largest privately held wireless provider in the U.S. and is licensed to provide wireless service - to a total population of more than five million people - on its network stretching from the Memphis Metropolitan Area, throughout all of Mississippi, along Coastal Alabama and the Florida Panhandle through Destin/Seaside. For more information, contact Cellular South at 1-877-CSOUTH1 or visit cellularsouth.com.
Contact:
Tanya Rankin, Cellular South (601) 974-7134 trankin@cellularsouth.com
