Plateau Telecommunications, Inc. (commonly "Plateau"; formerly branded ENMR‑Plateau) is a member‑owned rural telecommunications cooperative headquartered at 7111 N. Prince Street, Clovis, New Mexico. It traces its origins to 1949, when local farmers and ranchers formed Eastern New Mexico Rural Telephone Cooperative (ENMR); Plateau Telecommunications operates as the cooperative's subsidiary. Ownership is cooperative/member‑owned — no public ticker, no parent corporation. A 2010s NTCA job posting states the company employs about 200 people; third‑party data providers place it in the 200–500 employee band. Neither party publishes audited revenue, and no verified revenue figure is available.
Operations. Plateau is an operating carrier, not an NPE. It provides wireline and broadband service across roughly 25,000 square miles — about 20 counties in eastern New Mexico and West Texas — covering 25 ILEC exchanges and 11 CLEC markets. Offerings include local telephone, fiber‑based high‑speed internet (a network exceeding 5,200 miles of fiber), video/IPTV, long‑distance, and business services such as managed network/security and hosted solutions; it also acts as a regional middle‑mile transport provider for carriers, schools and anchor institutions, supported by federal broadband and USF awards. Plateau exited wireless: Verizon acquired the NM RSA #6 wireless assets in 2012, and AT&T purchased the remaining Plateau Wireless customers and spectrum in 2014.
Litigation posture. Plateau appears twice in our tracked data, both times as a defendant and never as plaintiff — the profile of a small operating carrier swept into a third‑party patent campaign rather than an entity asserting its own portfolio. Both entries are the same matter: Freedom Wireless, Inc. v. Alltel Corp. et al., filed November 30, 2006 in the Marshall Division of the Eastern District of Texas (No. 2:06‑cv‑00504); the docket shows termination in 2010. E.N.M.R. Plateau Telephone Cooperative was named alongside it.
Context. Plaintiff Freedom Wireless was a small, privately held Phoenix patent holder (successor to Cellexis/Cellular Express) asserting prepaid‑wireless patents — U.S. 5,722,067; 6,157,823; and 6,851 — and is classified as an individual‑inventor‑started NPE in Stanford's NPE database. It filed parallel Marshall suits the same day against Cingular, Ericsson, Comverse and VeriSign, after winning a $128 million jury verdict against Boston Communications Group in 2005 (later settled for $87 million).