The N.M. Public Regulation Commission (PRC) reported progress on ...
The N.M. Public Regulation Commission (PRC) reported progress on a dispute between Qwest and Pojoaque Pueblo that threatened phone service across northern N.M. The PRC said the pueblo tribal govt. extended a land lease for Qwest’s switching office lease…
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by 4 months, to Feb. 1, 2008, instead of requiring Qwest to vacate pueblo land Oct. 1. The PRC said the sides seem to be negotiating seriously again. The dispute erupted after the pueblo changed its incumbent telco from Qwest to Mescalero Apache Telephone Co. Talks on transferring the Qwest exchange to Mescalero broke down over price; in Oct. the pueblo threatened to evict Qwest’s switching center. That would have affected communities in the Pojoaque Valley plus tens of thousands of customers across northern N.M., because the switching center also is a connection point for the Qwest and Windstream phone networks. The PRC intervened after talks broke off, to safeguard phone service in the state.