OBAE News:
ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexicans can now look up any home, business, or Tribal community in the state to find out whether high-speed internet is available—or exactly when it’s coming—through a publicly accessible mapping tool launched by the state’s broadband office, with every location in New Mexico now on a path to connectivity.
The New Mexico Office of Broadband Access and Expansion (OBAE) has released updated broadband maps and data that pinpoint the status of high-speed internet for more than 850,000 locations statewide. The maps show available speeds and providers, the current user speed test results and Wi-Fi hotspot locations. Data comes from multiple state and federal agencies.
“Good decision making relies on good data and information. Mapping is a critical tool to calculate where broadband is needed in our ongoing state mission to connect all of New Mexico,” Jeff Lopez said, OBAE director.
For any New Mexico location, users can see the status of infrastructure for homes, towns, counties and Tribal communities—right down to a specific street. Users can find the type of grant, project details, its timetable, internet speeds and other pertinent information.
Current construction and planned projects supported by private corporations are not included in the maps or the underlying data.
“We want New Mexicans to find resources for themselves but also to see what information we use in making decisions,” said Natalie Runyan, GIS & data manager at OBAE. “Anyone—a provider, local and state official, utility, infrastructure expert or a New Mexico resident—will be able to see whether a location has high-speed internet or is about to get it.”
OBAE administers more than 50 broadband projects already underway using the state Connect New Mexico Fund and federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Capital Projects Fund, totaling nearly $200 million. The office is also overseeing more than $382 million in preliminarily awarded broadband projects through the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). That funding is going toward 17 infrastructure projects in 32 of the state’s 33 counties. Another $293 million in non-deployment BEAD funds will support broadband programs statewide.
The updated maps also track broadband funding from programs not administered by OBAE, including the Public Regulation Commission Broadband Program, U.S. Department of Agriculture ReConnect Program and the Federal Communications Commission Universal Service Fund.
“Our maps have always been very data-centric, but new updates in 2026 will focus on making that information more usable to a wider audience. We hope our most rural areas of the state will have a better sense of where and when higher-speed internet is being built,” Runyan said.
The underlying data collection is built on the FCC’s National Broadband Map and location-based foundation established by the U.S. Congress in the Broadband DATA Act of 2020.
Unserved locations receive less than 25Mbps download and 3Mbps upload speeds, while underserved receive between 25Mbps/3Mbps and up to 100Mbps download and 20Mbps uploads.
To view OBAE’s broadband maps, please visit https://maps.connect.nm.gov