Internet Access in New Mexico: Stats & Figures

INTERNET ACCESS IN New Mexico

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

New Mexico Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

80%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

25%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

19.9

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

43rd

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

81.4%

of New Mexicans have access to wired broadband 25mbps or faster.

73.7%

of New Mexicans have access to broadband 100mbps or faster.

5.9%

of New Mexicans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

93.1%

of New Mexicans have access to wireline service.

7.7%

of New Mexicans have access to fiber-optic service.

75.3%

of New Mexicans have access to cable service.

90.4%

of New Mexicans have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

99.6%

of New Mexicans have access to mobile broadband service.

83.5%

of New Mexicans have access to fixed wireless service.

Largest Competing Providers In New Mexico

CenturyLink vs XFINITY

Cable ONE vs CenturyLink

CenturyLink vs Suddenlink

XFINITY vs FairPoint

Top 5 Fastest cities in New Mexico

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	Farmington	75.4 MBPS	14 Providers
2.	Clovis	51.7 MBPS	8 Providers
3.	Las Cruces	45.0 MBPS	16 Providers
4.	Alamogordo	40.7 MBPS	13 Providers
5.	Los Lunas	36.2 MBPS	13 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in New Mexico

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
XFINITY from Comcast	29.9 MBPS
Cable ONE	28.7 MBPS
CenturyLink	9.3 MBPS
Windstream	5.9 MBPS
Wi-Power	2.2 MBPS

GOV'T FUNDING

Since 2010, New Mexico Broadband Program has been awarded $4,762,287 in federal grants for New Mexico's Broadband Initiative.
Another $76,978,670, accounting for 2.2% of all federal infrastructure grants, was awarded to broadband infrastructure projects in New Mexico.
Since 2011, access to a wired connection of at least 10mbps has improved from 72.8% to 88.6% of New Mexicans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 119 internet providers in New Mexico.
There are 402,000 people in New Mexico without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 387,000 people in New Mexico that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 150,000 people in New Mexico don't have any wired internet providers available where they live.

Sources: Data collected via the FCC, NTIA, and other sources. For a full list of data sources please visit our data page.

New Mexico CITIES


Alamogordo	98.5%	13 providers
Albuquerque	98.3%	26 providers
Carlsbad	95.2%	13 providers
Clovis	94.9%	8 providers
Farmington	91.9%	14 providers
Hobbs	95.3%	15 providers
Las Cruces	92.6%	16 providers
Los Lunas	87.3%	13 providers
Rio Rancho	98.1%	19 providers
Roswell	93.4%	12 providers
Santa Fe	91.0%	21 providers

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Last Updated on 11/30/2017.