High Speed Satellite Internet Creates Opportunity in Rural Areas and on Reservation Lands
Getting reliable internet service isn't always easy. We often talk about the benefits of receiving satellite internet service in rural areas.
Many of the benefits of quality satellite wireless internet can be enjoyed on Native American reservation lands. As the majority of reservations are in very remote locales; adding high speed internet, via satellite, not only facilitates more effective communication with the metropolitan neighbors, but also opens up venues for new commerce and their opportunities for additional sources of revenue.
In the state of Utah, the Utes occupy the Uintah and Ouray reservation, located in Northeastern Utah - a considerable distance (approximately 150 miles east) from the major city of Salt Lake. Forty miles west of the Colorado border, it is not in immediate proximity to any prime business destination in CO either. This is obviously an area where service internet offers benefits that otherwise would not exist.
Such challenges are nothing new to the Utes; in the aftermath of many armed conflicts with the Mormon settlers in 1861, an executive order from President Lincoln removed the Utes from their beloved Provo Valley and pushed them out into the desolate Uintah Basin.
Twenty years later a second reservation was established adjacent to the Uintah Reservation; two bands from Colorado were forcibly united with the Utes, whose tribal membership currently includes 3,300 members.
Bringing satellite internet to the homes of the Ute Indian Tribe opens opportunities to all of those who reside in the Uinta Basin. The vast 4.5 million acres of this reservation, while being a storehouse of Mesozoic wealth (hydrocarbons are now being mined and oil and gas, tar sands, oil shale and gilsonite are in supply), the internet creates additional possibilities for entrepreneurially minded citizens.



