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.

82%

BROADBAND COVERAGE

24%

POPULATION UNDERSERVED

31.4

MBPS AVERAGE
STATE-WIDE SPEED

43rd

MOST
CONNECTED STATE

BROADBAND SPEEDS

83.5%

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

79.6%

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

11.3%

of New Mexicans have access to 1 gigabit broadband.

WIRED COVERAGE

94.2%

of New Mexicans have access to wireline service.

10.2%

of New Mexicans have access to fiber-optic service.

75.4%

of New Mexicans have access to cable service.

91.7%

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	72.7 MBPS	9 Providers
2.	Fairacres	64.3 MBPS	7 Providers
3.	Cedar Crest	63.1 MBPS	15 Providers
4.	Bernalillo	62.7 MBPS	17 Providers
5.	Hagerman	59.5 MBPS	10 Providers

Speeds for Major Providers in New Mexico

Provider	Avg. Download Speed
Cable ONE	46.6 MBPS
XFINITY from Comcast	44.4 MBPS
Windstream	10.7 MBPS
CenturyLink	10.1 MBPS
Wi-Power	3.0 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 90.6% of New Mexicans.

QUICK STATS

In total there are 127 internet providers in New Mexico.
There are 356,000 people in New Mexico without access to a wired connection capable of 25mbps download speeds.
There are 386,000 people in New Mexico that have access to only one wired provider, leaving them no options to switch.
Another 126,000 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	98.2%	25 providers
Anthony	84.2%	13 providers
Artesia	88.0%	9 providers
Aztec	79.6%	9 providers
Belen	86.4%	14 providers
Bernalillo	87.0%	17 providers
Bloomfield	85.0%	11 providers
Bosque Farms	88.9%	12 providers
Carlsbad	93.9%	12 providers
Chaparral	32.2%	10 providers
Church Rock	20.0%	9 providers
Clovis	95.4%	9 providers
Corrales	99.1%	15 providers
Crownpoint	0.0%	6 providers
Cuba	9.2%	9 providers
Deming	67.6%	11 providers
Dexter	48.7%	12 providers
Edgewood	78.4%	14 providers
Espanola	65.7%	12 providers
Farmington	93.3%	13 providers
Fruitland	52.4%	10 providers
Gallup	83.0%	12 providers
Grants	8.4%	9 providers
Hobbs	94.1%	15 providers
Kirtland	98.8%	9 providers
La Mesa	39.4%	10 providers
Laguna	25.9%	10 providers
Las Cruces	92.7%	16 providers
Las Vegas	60.2%	10 providers
Los Alamos	98.6%	15 providers
Los Lunas	87.4%	13 providers
Lovington	89.3%	10 providers
Mesquite	76.8%	10 providers
Moriarty	58.2%	14 providers
Placitas	96.0%	15 providers
Portales	84.3%	9 providers
Ranchos De Taos	85.5%	8 providers
Raton	14.4%	7 providers
Rio Rancho	98.3%	18 providers
Roswell	94.6%	11 providers
Ruidoso	93.0%	9 providers
Sandia Park	87.2%	15 providers
Santa Fe	91.4%	21 providers
Santa Teresa	99.3%	10 providers
Shiprock	0.0%	6 providers
Silver City	87.2%	12 providers
Socorro	3.3%	11 providers
Sunland Park	99.0%	9 providers
Taos	78.2%	10 providers
Thoreau	18.6%	8 providers
Tijeras	72.3%	15 providers
Truth Or Consequences	94.3%	8 providers
Tucumcari	38.6%	7 providers
Tularosa	99.1%	10 providers
Zuni	51.9%	4 providers

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Last Updated on 3/6/2019.

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