by Pivot
Category: New Mexico
New Mexico Offers BEAD Update: 66 Applications for $675M in Funding
Last week, the New Mexico Office of Broadband Access and Expansion (OBAE) provided an update on the proposal status of the state’s Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program, announcing that 18 entities had submitted…
New Mexico Releases BEAD Application Timelines, Criteria
New Mexico has announced the criteria and deadlines for its $675 million Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program allotment. It has set a February 27 round one application deadline. According to a National Rural…
New Mexico Announces $15M in Broadband Grants
Last week, New Mexico’s Office of Broadband Access and Expansion (OBAE) announced more than $15 million in broadband infrastructure grants to entities through the state’s Connect New Mexico Fund. The eight grants, totaling $15,440,719 were…
New Mexico Awards $40 Million in Broadband Grants
New Mexico’s Office of Broadband Access and Expansion (OBAE) has awarded more than $40 million grants from the Connect New Mexico Fund to ISPs, telephone cooperatives, pueblos, and a tribal company for broadband projects. Some…
New Mexico Broadband Director Talks Bid-Worthy Project Areas, Technology Mix
Many state broadband directors are keeping their fingers crossed that all the areas eligible for BEAD rural broadband funding receive bids. But it’s a particularly big challenge for New Mexico, as the state’s broadband director…
New Mexico Tribes Get $10M from CPF
NTIA has awarded $10 million through the Capital Projects Fund (CPF) for New Mexico’s Tribal Library Broadband-Ready Facility Improvement Program. The funding will go toward a new childcare center and will expand six libraries and…
New Mexico Broadband Awards Go Primarily to Tribal Entities; Comcast Gets $15.5M
The state of New Mexico has awarded $66.8 million to cover some of the costs of making broadband available to 10,300 unserved and underserved locations. Tribal areas were the big winners, with more than half…
New Mexico Awards $17M to Four Small Broadband Providers for Buildouts
New Mexico’s Office of Broadband Access and Expansion has awarded $17 million to four small broadband providers for fiber and fixed wireless deployments to unserved and underserved rural areas. The providers will contribute an additional…
State Broadband Bonanza: More Funding Announced; Windows Set to Open, Close
Two states – Florida and Texas — recently announced new broadband infrastructure funding opportunities. A funding program announced last month for a third state—Georgia — will begin accepting applications soon. And two other states extended…
Big RDOF Winner Resound Receives Final Authorization for Gigabit/FWA Plans
Resound Networks has received final authorization from the FCC for winning bids in seven states in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) program. The company was the winning bidder for over $300 million in funding…
NTIA: All States Now Have Digital Equity, BEAD Planning Funds
All states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia now have received Digital Equity and Broadband Equity Access and Deployment, or BEAD, planning funds, according to NTIA. The news is based on three more states…
NTIA Awards $146 Million to New Mexico Tribal Entities
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has awarded more than $146 million to tribal entities in New Mexico. The awards will provide five tribal entities with funds for broadband internet projects.…
