New Mexico
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FCC data as of 2025-12-31
Total broadband serviceable units: 1,081,272
Satellite is doing 7.7% of the work here
The headline says 99.9843% served, but only 92.2% has ground infrastructure at the benchmark. That gap is about 83,653 broadband serviceable units whose only reported option at 100/20 is satellite.
- Satellite reaches almost everywhere, so a headline that includes it approaches 100% nearly everywhere and stops distinguishing places.
- Availability is not capacity. Satellite constellations share bandwidth across all subscribers in a cell, so advertised speed is not a guarantee the whole reported population could be served at once.
- Latency, weather sensitivity, data policies, and equipment cost differ materially from wired service, and none of them appear in this dataset.
- Funding and policy programmes frequently treat satellite-only locations as unserved for their own purposes. Check the programme's own definition rather than this headline.
Who can get what
Shares of all broadband serviceable units in the total partition, residential class.
Headline versus ground truth
| Lens | Share | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Any technology, including satellite | 99.9843% | 1,081,102 |
| Ground infrastructure only | 92.2% | 997,449 |
| Satellite is the only option at the benchmark | 7.7% | 83,653 |
Coverage by speed tier
| Tier | Share | Estimated units |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2/0.2 Mbps | 100.0% | 1,081,272 |
| 10/1 Mbps | 100.0% | 1,081,272 |
| 25/3 Mbps | 99.9999075% | 1,081,271 |
| 100/20 Mbps | 99.9843% | 1,081,102 |
| 250/25 Mbps | 99.9699% | 1,080,946 |
| 1000/100 Mbps | 36.7% | 397,276 |
Tiers are cumulative: a unit counted at a higher tier is also counted at every lower tier, so these rows must not be summed.
Fiber and upload capability
The published summary reports six fixed download/upload pairs and no symmetric tier above 0.2/0.2 Mbps, so symmetric service cannot be measured from it directly. Upload capability is shown through the highest tier, which requires 100 Mbps upstream, and fiber is reported separately because it is the technology that typically delivers matched speeds. A symmetric share is derivable from the FCC location-level availability files, which carry each location's advertised upload speed, but that product is roughly 973 million rows per vintage and is not ingested here.
Every technology
How this compares
Ranked 11 of 11 within Nation US on any terrestrial coverage at the benchmark.
Ranking deliberately uses ground infrastructure rather than the headline. Satellite reaches nearly everywhere, so ranking on it puts most areas at 100% and separates nothing.
Reporting providers (64)
| Provider | Holding company | Residential coverage |
|---|---|---|
| EchoStar Corporation | EchoStar Corporation | 100.0% |
| Viasat, Inc. | Viasat, Inc. | 100.0% |
| Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | 99.7% |
| Lumen Technologies, Inc. | Lumen Technologies, Inc. | 67.5% |
| Comcast Corporation | Comcast Corporation | 58.2% |
| T-Mobile USA, Inc. | T-Mobile USA, Inc. | 48.3% |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Verizon Communications Inc. | 46.1% |
| PCC Holdings, Inc. | PCC Holdings, Inc. | 45.7% |
| NMsurf, Inc. | NMsurf, Inc. | 45.0% |
| Internet Services, LLC | Internet Services, LLC | 45.0% |
| ATN International, Inc. | ATN International, Inc. | 43.8% |
| Lobo Internet Services, Ltd. | Lobo Internet Services, Ltd. | 39.6% |
| AT&T Inc. | AT&T Inc. | 32.7% |
| ENMR Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | ENMR Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 10.8% |
| Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. | 8.7% |
| Uniti Group Inc. | Uniti Group Inc. | 7.8% |
| Cable One, Inc. | Cable One, Inc. | 6.4% |
| LICT Corporation | LICT Corporation | 4.4% |
| Chaparral Holding Corporation | Chaparral Holding Corporation | 3.7% |
| Babcock Enterprises LLC | Babcock Enterprises LLC | 3.5% |
| Metronet Holdings, LLC | Metronet Holdings, LLC | 2.8% |
| Hawk Networks, Inc. | Hawk Networks, Inc. | 2.5% |
| Leaco Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | Leaco Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 2.4% |
| Penasco Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | Penasco Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 2.3% |
| Ezee Fiber Texas, LLC | Ezee Fiber Texas, LLC | 2.3% |
| Kit Carson Electric Cooperative Inc. | Kit Carson Electric Cooperative Inc. | 2.3% |
| Visionary Communications, Inc. | Visionary Communications, Inc. | 1.8% |
| Tularosa Basin Telephone Company, Inc. | Tularosa Basin Telephone Company, Inc. | 1.8% |
| Taos Net, LLC | Taos Net, LLC | 1.6% |
| Optimum Communications | Optimum Communications | 1.6% |
| Bros Broadband, LLC | Bros Broadband, LLC | 1.5% |
| Charter Communications | Charter Communications | 1.3% |
| Stimulus Technologies of New Mexico, LLC | Stimulus Technologies of New Mexico, LLC | 1.2% |
| Plains Internet, LLC | Plains Internet, LLC | 1.0% |
| DesertGate Internet, LLC | DesertGate Internet, LLC | 1.0% |
| Roosevelt County Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | Roosevelt County Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 1.0% |
| Continental Divide Electric Cooperative, Inc. | Continental Divide Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 0.9% |
| Uber Wireless LLP | Uber Wireless LLP | 0.8% |
| Baca Valley Telephone Company, Inc. | Baca Valley Telephone Company, Inc. | 0.5% |
| La Jicarita Rural Telephone Cooperative | La Jicarita Rural Telephone Cooperative | 0.3% |
| Mescalero Apache Telecom, Inc. | Mescalero Apache Telecom, Inc. | 0.2% |
| JackRabbit Wireless LLC | JackRabbit Wireless LLC | 0.2% |
| Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (AZ/NM) | Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (AZ/NM) | 0.2% |
| Dell Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | Dell Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 0.2% |
| Jicarilla Apache Nation Power Authority | Jicarilla Apache Nation Power Authority | 0.2% |
| La Canada Wireless Association | La Canada Wireless Association | 0.1% |
| Oso Internet Solutions, LLC | Oso Internet Solutions, LLC | 0.1% |
| Cyber Mesa Computer Systems, Inc. | Cyber Mesa Computer Systems, Inc. | 0.1% |
| Smith Bagley, Inc. | Smith Bagley, Inc. | 0.1% |
| Clearnetworx, LLC | Clearnetworx, LLC | 0.1% |