** Shares of payment platform SurgePays Inc SURG.O up
10.6% at $6.34 premarket
** SurgePays closed 11% higher on Wednesday after the
company said it had over 200,000 subscribers in its mobile
broadband subscriber business
** Company said it is early stages of the U.S. government's
Affordable Connectivity Program scaling efforts to reach an
estimated 48 mln qualifying households
** SurgePays says it has a a longer-term target of 500,000
subscribers
** As of last close, company's shares have more than doubled
YTD
(Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru)
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