What are the reasons that Comcast Cable's famous founder selected Tupelo, Mississippi, for his company's start-up in early 1960s? One story from first-hand company sources describes a chance meeting on a Philadelphia street between Ralph Roberts and the seller of the Northeast Mississippi cable system that Roberts bought a few days later. But the story of Roberts' entry into cable does not address matters that Roberts pondered when making his decision to put his company's early cable start-ups in that state. It is unlikely that an original co-founder of Microwave Communications Incorporated -- company name changed later to "MCI" -- who was in Tupelo used his powerful Washington, New York and Philadelphia contacts and business associates to assist Roberts in getting a baby Comcast up and running. However, this same MCI co-founder provided Roberts some important technological support that may have been otherwise beyond his professional and financial reach in 1963. In July 2005 Frank Kyle Spain tells Eddie Foote, Chotank.com producer, of his early meeting in Memphis, Tennessee, with Ralph Roberts. Out of that face-to-face exchange with the Comcast founder came a Mississippi microwave services agreement that lasted 42 years, ending in January 2005 after work had already started for this report. Important questions are being asked about early Comcast history in Tupelo for the first time.