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Monday, July 21, 2008
Possible Shutdown of Navajo Internet Pushed Back
Associated Press
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — The shutdown of Internet services on the Navajo Nation has been temporarily averted.
SES Americom, a company that provides bandwidth for the services, had threatened to shutter it by noon Tuesday if the company was not paid for services rendered.
Deswood Tome, a spokesman for the Navajo Nation's Washington office, says he has learned that SES has pushed back the date until Aug. 1, giving the tribe and federal officials more time to find a solution.
Utah-based OnSat Network Communications Inc. purchases the bandwidth from SES, but it has been unable to pay SES because the federal government has been withholding about $2.1 million in reimbursement funds.
The shutdown would have effected the tribe's public safety network.
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