Driven by need and created by vision, rural citizens residing on the High Plains of eastern New Mexico have benefited from telephone services for more than five decades. The creation of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Telephone Cooperative (now referred to as ENMR•Plateau) by an interested group of area farmers, ranchers, and other citizens has been far-reaching. Before, rural citizens had been lacking dependable, quality telephone service. Regulatory agencies were quick to recognize this unmet need and the importance for supplying reliable and affordable phone service; therefore, these groups became very supportive of this small company's initiatives. In more recent times, residents have enjoyed other modern telecommunications technologies including mobile phones, long distance service, business solutions, dial-up Internet, and high-speed Internet provided by ENMR•Plateau.
