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.

81%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

25%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

31.3

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

43rd

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

82.5%

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

76.7%

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

10.2%

of New Mexicans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

93.6%

of New Mexicans have access to wireline service.

8.4%

of New Mexicans have access to fiber-optic service.

75.3%

of New Mexicans have access to cable service.

90.8%

of New Mexicans have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

99.6%

of New Mexicans have access to mobile broadband service.

83.2%

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.	Clovis	71.1 MBPS	9 Providers
2.	Fairacres	62.8 MBPS	7 Providers
3.	Cerrillos	62.4 MBPS	16 Providers
4.	Cedar Crest	59.1 MBPS	15 Providers
5.	Bernalillo	58.0 MBPS	15 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in New Mexico

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
Cable ONE	42.8 MBPS
XFINITY from Comcast	42.3 MBPS
CenturyLink	10.5 MBPS
Windstream	10.1 MBPS
Wi-Power	2.7 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 89.3% of New Mexicans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 121 internet providers in New Mexico.
There are 379,000 people in New Mexico without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 395,000 people in New Mexico that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 138,000 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	98.4%	13 providers
Albuquerque	98.3%	25 providers
Anthony	83.7%	12 providers
Artesia	87.7%	10 providers
Aztec	80.6%	9 providers
Belen	86.6%	14 providers
Bernalillo	87.0%	15 providers
Bloomfield	82.4%	11 providers
Bosque Farms	88.8%	12 providers
Carlsbad	94.0%	13 providers
Chaparral	31.8%	10 providers
Church Rock	7.9%	9 providers
Clovis	94.8%	9 providers
Corrales	99.0%	15 providers
Crownpoint	0.0%	6 providers
Cuba	6.6%	9 providers
Deming	68.6%	11 providers
Dexter	47.9%	13 providers
Edgewood	77.0%	14 providers
Espanola	51.7%	12 providers
Farmington	92.2%	13 providers
Fruitland	28.7%	10 providers
Gallup	80.9%	12 providers
Grants	6.9%	9 providers
Hobbs	94.4%	15 providers
Kirtland	98.8%	11 providers
La Mesa	37.3%	10 providers
Laguna	12.0%	10 providers
Las Cruces	92.8%	15 providers
Las Vegas	40.1%	10 providers
Los Alamos	99.1%	15 providers
Los Lunas	87.2%	13 providers
Lovington	88.5%	11 providers
Mesquite	72.5%	10 providers
Moriarty	53.9%	14 providers
Placitas	96.0%	15 providers
Portales	80.9%	9 providers
Ranchos De Taos	86.1%	9 providers
Raton	14.8%	7 providers
Rio Rancho	98.7%	18 providers
Roswell	94.6%	12 providers
Ruidoso	92.3%	10 providers
Sandia Park	87.0%	15 providers
Santa Fe	90.7%	21 providers
Santa Teresa	99.3%	10 providers
Shiprock	0.0%	6 providers
Silver City	87.3%	12 providers
Socorro	0.4%	10 providers
Sunland Park	99.0%	9 providers
Taos	78.1%	10 providers
Thoreau	10.5%	8 providers
Tijeras	74.8%	16 providers
Truth Or Consequences	93.3%	8 providers
Tucumcari	7.1%	7 providers
Tularosa	99.1%	9 providers
Zuni	58.9%	4 providers

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Last Updated on 11/13/2018.

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