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.

66.5%

TERRESTRIAL BROADBAND COVERAGE

12.5%

WIRED LOW-PRICE PLAN ACCESS

43.3

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

49th

STATE BROADBAND ACCESS RANKING

BROADBAND SPEEDS

83.0%

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

80.0%

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

11.4%

of New Mexicans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

94.4%

of New Mexicans have access to wireline service.

10.8%

of New Mexicans have access to fiber-optic service.

75.4%

of New Mexicans have access to cable service.

92.2%

of New Mexicans have access to DSL service.

Largest Competing Providers In New Mexico

CenturyLink vs Xfinity

Sparklight vs CenturyLink

CenturyLink vs Suddenlink

Xfinity vs FairPoint

Coverage by County in New Mexico

County Name	% Broadband Coverage
Bernalillo	97.5%
Catron	14.6%
Chaves	86.0%
Cibola	23.2%
Colfax	10.2%
Curry	94.2%
De Baca	67.7%
Doña Ana	86.7%
Eddy	89.8%
Grant	83.6%
Guadalupe	64.7%
Harding	49.5%
Hidalgo	2.1%
Lea	89.5%
Lincoln	83.6%
Los Alamos	98.9%
Luna	63.1%
McKinley	39.6%
Mora	32.1%
Otero	81.2%
Quay	44.8%
Rio Arriba	60.2%
Roosevelt	81.8%
Sandoval	86.6%
San Juan	71.0%
San Miguel	58.5%
Santa Fe	88.5%
Sierra	78.4%
Socorro	5.7%
Taos	59.6%
Torrance	46.6%
Union	60.3%
Valencia	87.4%

Internet Speed in Top New Mexico Cities

	City	Avg. Download Speed	No. of Providers
1.	Albuquerque	44.1 MBPS	27 Providers
2.	Las Cruces	68.3 MBPS	16 Providers
3.	Santa Fe	44.4 MBPS	22 Providers
4.	Rio Rancho	36.8 MBPS	18 Providers
5.	Farmington	60.5 MBPS	14 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in New Mexico

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
Sparklight (formerly Cable One)	78.3 MBPS
XFINITY from Comcast	75.8 MBPS
Windstream	14.8 MBPS
CenturyLink	12.3 MBPS
TWN Communications	4.1 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 91.7% of New Mexicans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 131 internet providers in New Mexico.
There are 342,000 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 122,000 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	98.2%	27 providers
Anthony	85.0%	12 providers
Artesia	88.0%	9 providers
Aztec	81.3%	9 providers
Belen	88.4%	14 providers
Bernalillo	88.3%	18 providers
Bloomfield	82.6%	10 providers
Bosque Farms	88.9%	12 providers
Carlsbad	93.9%	12 providers
Chaparral	38.7%	10 providers
Church Rock	8.0%	9 providers
Clovis	95.5%	9 providers
Corrales	99.1%	15 providers
Crownpoint	0.0%	6 providers
Cuba	10.4%	9 providers
Deming	68.2%	11 providers
Dexter	48.6%	12 providers
Edgewood	78.8%	14 providers
Espanola	69.4%	12 providers
Farmington	92.2%	14 providers
Fruitland	28.7%	10 providers
Gallup	80.7%	12 providers
Grants	23.6%	10 providers
Hobbs	94.2%	15 providers
Kirtland	98.8%	9 providers
La Mesa	36.7%	10 providers
Laguna	10.8%	10 providers
Las Cruces	93.6%	16 providers
Las Vegas	70.6%	10 providers
Los Alamos	98.9%	16 providers
Los Lunas	88.1%	13 providers
Lovington	90.5%	10 providers
Mesquite	75.8%	10 providers
Moriarty	61.2%	14 providers
Placitas	96.3%	16 providers
Portales	84.3%	9 providers
Ranchos De Taos	86.0%	9 providers
Raton	15.7%	7 providers
Rio Rancho	98.3%	18 providers
Roswell	94.6%	11 providers
Ruidoso	93.1%	9 providers
Sandia Park	87.2%	15 providers
Santa Fe	92.7%	22 providers
Santa Teresa	99.6%	11 providers
Shiprock	0.0%	6 providers
Silver City	88.7%	12 providers
Socorro	5.1%	8 providers
Sunland Park	99.2%	9 providers
Taos	79.3%	11 providers
Thoreau	16.4%	8 providers
Tijeras	75.5%	14 providers
Truth Or Consequences	94.3%	9 providers
Tucumcari	39.8%	7 providers
Tularosa	99.1%	11 providers
Zuni	51.1%	4 providers

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Last Updated on 2/6/2020.

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