BROADBAND IN New Mexico

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COVERAGE BY COUNTY

New Mexico Interactive SVG Map showing broadband coverage by county.

78%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

24%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

30.2

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

43rd

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

79.2%

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

72.0%

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

2.8%

of New Mexicans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

92.9%

of New Mexicans have access to wireline service.

7.1%

of New Mexicans have access to fiber-optic service.

74.1%

of New Mexicans have access to cable service.

90.5%

of New Mexicans have access to DSL service.

WIRELESS COVERAGE

99.6%

of New Mexicans have access to mobile broadband service.

85.8%

of New Mexicans have access to fixed wireless service.

Top 5 Fastest Cities In New Mexico

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Farmington

47.2 MBPS

47.2">%

Los Alamos

36.1 MBPS

36.1">%

Edgewood

33.7 MBPS

33.7">%

Corrales

31.3 MBPS

31.3">%

Los Lunas

31.1 MBPS

31.1">%

Largest Competing Providers In New Mexico

CenturyLink vs XFINITY

Cable ONE vs CenturyLink

CenturyLink vs Suddenlink

XFINITY vs FairPoint

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 87.1% of New Mexicans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 115 broadband providers in New Mexico.
There are 449,000 people in New Mexico without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 361,000 people in New Mexico that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 154,000 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	98.3%	16 providers
Albuquerque	98.0%	36 providers
Carlsbad	95.2%	14 providers
Clovis	90.8%	11 providers
Farmington	91.0%	19 providers
Hobbs	95.3%	17 providers
Las Cruces	90.4%	22 providers
Los Lunas	86.6%	16 providers
Rio Rancho	98.1%	20 providers
Roswell	93.3%	14 providers
Santa Fe	90.4%	30 providers

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Last Updated on 7/11/2017.