Residents of the settlement 160 miles northwest of Albuquerque, New Mexico have been so isolated they had to drive six miles on dirt roads to use the nearest pay phone.
Navajo Nation information technology director Harold Skow has tried to obtain standard phone line service, but was quoted a price of $100,000. And that would have been for a non-broadband service.
Skow decided in favor of a 75-mile microwave connection capable of providing and supporting VoIP, Wi-Fi access points, and videoconferencing.
The new infrastructure at White Rock is tied in with Cisco VoIP CallManager equipment already installed in the Navajo Nation's capital of Window Rock, Ariz.
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