Bringing WiMAX to the Navajo reservation - FierceBroadbandWireless
May 25, 2009
Long before anyone talked of federal stimulus money for rural broadband deployments, there was Sacred Wind Communications--a small incumbent local exchange carrier in New Mexico that has found and continues to look for innovative ways to connect the thousands of remote homes in the state's Navajo reservation with both basic telephone service and high-speed Internet access.
John Badal, Sacred Wind's chief executive officer, served as president of Qwest New Mexico in the early 2000s. His biggest challenge was trying to bring basic telephone service to the Navajo Nation, the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States and whose area encompasses 27,000 square miles in Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. Laying copper cable throughout the rugged desert area to connect a relatively small number of people who couldn't afford to pay much for service wasn't economically feasible...
Long before anyone talked of federal stimulus money for rural broadband deployments, there was Sacred Wind Communications--a small incumbent local exchange carrier in New Mexico that has found and continues to look for innovative ways to connect the thousands of remote homes in the state's Navajo reservation with both basic telephone service and high-speed Internet access.
John Badal, Sacred Wind's chief executive officer, served as president of Qwest New Mexico in the early 2000s. His biggest challenge was trying to bring basic telephone service to the Navajo Nation, the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States and whose area encompasses 27,000 square miles in Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. Laying copper cable throughout the rugged desert area to connect a relatively small number of people who couldn't afford to pay much for service wasn't economically feasible...
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