The Divide: How Tarana and Choice Broadband are connecting Navajo Nation

This episode features Basil Alwan, CEO of Tarana Wireless; and Velena Tsosie, general manager of Choice Broadband, the wireless broadband arm of the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority.

We discuss the details of the companies' partnership to deliver a fixed wireless access network for residents of Navajo Nation in Tohatchi, New Mexico. The project, currently a finalist in the Digital Divide category in Light Reading's Leading Lights awards, launched earlier this year, immediately boosting the region's average speeds from 9 Mbit/s to 100 Mbit/s.

Check out a video of the ribbon-cutting ceremony here.

Here are a few topics discussed in this conversation:

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