{"id":21234,"date":"2025-07-24T19:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/21234\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T19:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:23:07","slug":"data-new-mexico-leads-us-for-internet-speed-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/21234\/","title":{"rendered":"Data: New Mexico leads US for internet speed improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. \u2014 New Mexico achieved the largest year-over-year increase in broadband speeds nationally, according to data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedtest.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Speedtest<\/a> by Ookla.<\/p>\n<p>The data compared the last six months of 2023 to the last half of 2024. It showed a 20.5% increase in the number of residents having access to high-speed internet. The threshold for \u201chigh-speed internet\u201d is 100\/20 Mbps or faster.<\/p>\n<p>South Santa Fe saw a 73% boost attributed to new development from Xfinity cable and NMSurf fixed wireless. Chaparral in Do\u00f1a Ana and Otero counties saw a 52% increase with five providers offering licensed fixed wireless, cable, and fiber broadband.<\/p>\n<p>Navajo Nation areas north of Gallup, around Coyote Canyon, saw a 40% increase. Meanwhile, Navajo\/Ramah, south of Gallup, saw a 33% improvement. Choice Broadband, Ethos and Oso Internet Solutions serve that area.<\/p>\n<p>The OBAE attributes the speed increases to several factors:<\/p>\n<p>More homes and businesses are gaining access to faster internet through new developmentFiber technology prioritized for new broadband locationsBetter latency and better-quality high-speed internetMore New Mexicans are understanding that greater speeds are available\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe boost shows that more New Mexicans are achieving higher, more reliable broadband speeds,\u201d said Jeff Lopez, director of the Office of Broadband Access and Expansion. \u201cThis is a great sign of progress in our mission for wider and faster connectivity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The OBAE expects more New Mexicans to get high-speed internet in the next few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. \u2014 New Mexico achieved the largest year-over-year increase in broadband speeds nationally, according to data from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[49,48,244,61],"class_list":["post-21234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-internet","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}