Home internet in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Fiber is available at 34.0% of the 192,044 homes and businesses the FCC counts in Albuquerque, and wired broadband of at least 100/20 Mbps at 99.7%. 38.3% of locations have a choice of two or more wired providers at that speed; at 61.4% there is only one.1
FCC National Broadband Map, availability as of June 30, 2026 (data revised November 10, 2026), as reported by providers.
Albuquerque in New Mexico
No large American city reports DSL, internet over telephone lines, as widely as Albuquerque: it is reported at 91.3% of its homes and businesses, the highest share of the 343 cities of 100,000 or more. Xfinity's cable is the only wired service at 100/20 Mbps for most of the city. Fiber, at 1.1%2 of locations in June 2022, reached 34.0%1 by June 2026, as three companies that reported no fiber here in 2022 began reporting it.
A long list, two wires that reach everyone
The FCC list for Albuquerque is long, and most of it is wireless. As of June 30, 2026 (revision of November 10, 2026), 12 companies report wired or fixed wireless service at some of the city's 192,044 broadband serviceable locations, the FCC's term for a house, an apartment building or a small business inside the 2020 city limits. Only two wired networks run past almost every one of them: Xfinity's cable (99.7%) and CenturyLink's telephone lines (93.0%1).
| TWN Communications | Fixed wireless | 99.8% | 0.0% | – | – |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xfinity | Fiber Cable | 99.7% | 99.7% | 2 Gbps | 61.4% |
| Lobo Internet Services Ltd | Fixed wireless | 99.0% | 94.3% | 100 Mbps | – |
| Internet Services LLC | Fixed wireless | 97.7% | 0.0% | 10 Mbps | – |
| NMSurf | Licensed wireless Fixed wireless | 93.2% | 89.8% | 1 Gbps | – |
| CenturyLink | Fiber DSL | 93.0% | 7.7% | 2 Gbps | 0.0% |
| Verizon | Licensed wireless | 70.8% | 41.4% | 1 Gbps | – |
| T-Mobile | Licensed wireless | 69.5% | 11.7% | 100 Mbps | – |
| AT&T | Fiber Licensed wireless | 52.7% | 17.6% | 5 Gbps | – |
| Metronet | Fiber | 13.3% | 13.3% | 5 Gbps | 0.0% |
| Ezee Fiber | Fiber | 10.7% | 10.7% | 8 Gbps | 0.0% |
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Share of the area's broadband serviceable locations where the provider reports service as of June 30, 2026. "Only wired option" is the share of locations where it is the single wired provider at 100/20 Mbps. Provider-reported and challengeable; speeds are advertised maximums, not measured; no prices. Satellite providers (HughesNet, Viasat, Starlink) report service at nearly every location and are left out of the table.
The order of the table can mislead. TWN Communications heads it at 99.8% of locations but reports 100/20 Mbps at 0.0%, and Internet Services LLC advertises no more than 10 Mbps1. A share here means the company told the FCC it could install service within ten business days; it is a claim about the network, open to challenge on the FCC map, and it says nothing about prices.
More DSL than any other large city
CenturyLink reports DSL across nearly the whole city: 91.3% of locations, the highest share among the 343 cities of 100,000 or more, against 36.2% nationally. New Mexico as a whole has the highest DSL share of any state, 72.2%1. The copper footprint has not shrunk since the first national map: DSL was reported at 90.3%2 of the city's locations in June 2022.
Copper reaches the city's homes, but rarely at 100/20 Mbps. CenturyLink offers that speed at 7.7% of locations, on its fastest DSL lines and on fiber, which it reports at only 1.8%. Its fastest advertised plan, 2 Gbps1, is a fiber plan.
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Share of broadband serviceable locations where at least one provider reports the technology, at any speed; a location can have several. Satellite is reported almost everywhere and is left out.
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| Technology | Albuquerque | New Mexico |
|---|---|---|
| Fiber | 34.0% | 36.4% |
| Cable | 99.4% | 70.8% |
| DSL (copper) | 91.3% | 72.2% |
| Licensed fixed wireless (incl. 5G home) | 98.5% | 89.5% |
| Unlicensed fixed wireless | 100.0% | 66.5% |
Where Xfinity is the only fast wire
With CenturyLink's lines mostly below 100/20 Mbps, wired choice at that speed often comes down to Xfinity. It offers 100/20 Mbps or more at 99.7% of locations and is the only wired provider doing so at 61.4%. The single-wire share for the whole city is 61.4%, the 37th highest among large cities, against 36.6%1 for the US.
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Different wired providers (fiber, cable or DSL; FCC provider IDs) reporting 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up or more at the same location. Fixed wireless and satellite are not counted.
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| Area | None | One | Two | Three or more |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albuquerque | 0.3% | 61.4% | 32.7% | 5.5% |
| New Mexico | 18.2% | 53.5% | 24.3% | 4.0% |
| United States | 7.8% | 36.6% | 44.6% | 11.1% |
That share is falling fast. It was 92.7% in June 2022 and 75.2%3 in December 2025. Locations with two or more wired providers at 100/20 Mbps went from 6.8%2 to 38.3% over the four years, above New Mexico's 28.3% but below the national 55.6%. The rise of 13.7 percentage points in the last six months alone was the 10th highest1 among large cities.
Three fiber builders since 2022
In June 2022 fiber reached 1.1% of Albuquerque's locations and 22 companies reported any. By June 2026 the share was 34.0% and the count 6. The jump of 14.3 percentage points between December 2025 and June 2026 was the 9th highest1 among large cities.
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2022; FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of December 31, 2025; FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Shares of broadband serviceable locations in each FCC release (latest revision of each); the small number is the change in percentage points since June 30, 2022. The FCC's count of locations is updated with each release, so shares are compared rather than counts.
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| Measure | June 30, 2022 | December 31, 2025 | June 30, 2026 | Change (points) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiber available | 1.1% | 19.8% | 34.0% | 33.0 pts |
| Two or more wired choices | 6.8% | 24.5% | 38.3% | 31.5 pts |
| Gigabit (1,000/100) | 18.6% | 43.1% | 63.4% | 44.8 pts |
| DSL available | 90.3% | 91.5% | 91.3% | 1.0 pts |
Three companies account for most of the new fiber, and none of them reported fiber in the city in 2022:
- Metronet reports fiber at 13.3% of locations, advertised up to 5 Gbps. In the June 30, 2026 files most of its New Mexico records are coded as business service, because Metronet became a wholesale network whose home customers are now T-Mobile's; this site counts them as residential, as its methodology explains.
- AT&T reports fiber at 12.4%, advertised up to 5 Gbps, and fixed wireless across much of the rest of its 52.7% footprint. It reports no DSL in the city.
- Ezee Fiber reports fiber at 10.7%, advertised up to 8 Gbps. New Mexico is the company's second state by locations after Texas, with 34,067, and 20,5801 of them are in Albuquerque.
Their networks mostly do not overlap: two or more fiber providers reach the same location at 4.3%. Even after the growth, Albuquerque's fiber share ranks tied for 38th lowest among large cities, where the median is 74.0%1.
Upload speeds, not downloads, changed
Download speeds were not the gap in Albuquerque. A 1 Gbps download was advertised at 99.5% of locations in 2022 and 99.7% now. Upload speed is where the city changed. Gigabit service with uploads of at least 100 Mbps, the FCC's 1,000/100 tier, went from 18.6% of locations in June 2022 to 63.4% in June 2026, and its rise since December 2025 ranks 5th highest among large cities. Statewide the share is 47.5%. Symmetrical wired service of 100/100 Mbps or more reached 63.5%1, up from 19.6%2.
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. Maximum advertised download speed (Mbps) of any wired or fixed wireless offer at the location, as reported by providers to the FCC; satellite excluded. Advertised, not measured.
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| Area | Under 25 Mbps or none | 25–99 | 100–249 | 250–499 | 500–939 | 940–1,999 | 2,000 or more |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albuquerque | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 38.3% | 61.4% |
| New Mexico | 3.8% | 3.9% | 5.0% | 5.7% | 0.4% | 50.2% | 31.0% |
| United States | 2.4% | 1.6% | 1.8% | 1.4% | 0.9% | 31.0% | 61.0% |
All of these are the fastest speeds providers advertise to the FCC, not measurements of what a connection delivers.
Smaller wireless operators and the 5G carriers
Fixed wireless of some kind is reported at 100.0% of Albuquerque's locations. Licensed fixed wireless at 100/20 Mbps, which includes 5G home internet, reaches 92.9%, the 21st highest1 share among large cities and up from 10.8%2 in 2022. Two smaller operators report service at more locations than the national carriers:
- NMSurf reports service at 93.2% of locations, with 100/20 Mbps at 89.8%.
- Lobo Internet Services reports 99.0%, with 100/20 Mbps at 94.3%, over unlicensed spectrum and advertised up to 100 Mbps.
- Verizon reports 70.8%, with 100/20 Mbps at 41.4%; T-Mobile reports 69.5%, advertised up to 100 Mbps, with 100/20 Mbps at 11.7%1.
Fixed wireless capacity is shared by everyone on a tower sector, and providers revise their filings each release, so these shares move more than wired ones. At 577 locations no wired provider offers 100/20 Mbps; 5711 of them have fixed wireless at that speed instead. The fixed wireless page explains the technology.
Rio Rancho, Las Cruces and Bernalillo County
The city next door shows how different the same companies' filings can be. In Rio Rancho, Xfinity reports fiber at 88.3% of locations, against 0.3% in Albuquerque, and the city's fiber share went from 1.2%2 in 2022 to 97.0%. Las Cruces, at 36.0%1, is level with Albuquerque.
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. FCC file revision of November 10, 2026. Shares are of broadband serviceable locations (homes and businesses), not people.
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| Area | Fiber available |
|---|---|
| Rio Rancho | 97.0% |
| United States | 62.6% |
| New Mexico | 36.4% |
| Las Cruces | 36.0% |
| Albuquerque | 34.0% |
Bernalillo County, which includes Albuquerque and the unincorporated land around it, has fiber at 28.4% of its 235,565 locations, and 2,0071 of them count as unserved, with no reliable wired or licensed fixed wireless service at 25/3 Mbps. The New Mexico page covers every county and the state's federal broadband programs.
Subscriptions since 2019
The Census Bureau's 2025 American Community Survey counts households, not locations. In Albuquerque, 92.4% of households had a broadband subscription of some kind (margin of error ±1.2 percentage points), up from 84.3% in 2019, and the share with no internet subscription fell from 14.8%5 to 7.4%4.
Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026; Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year detailed tables. Availability is a share of locations as of June 30, 2026 (FCC); subscriptions are a share of households from the American Community Survey, 2025 (whiskers: 90% margin of error). Different units and dates: read the gap as a sign, not an exact number.
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| Measure | Share | MOE |
|---|---|---|
| Wired 100/20 Mbps available (FCC, share of locations) | 99.7% | |
| Households subscribing to cable, fiber or DSL (Census) | 73.4% | ±2.2 |
| Households relying only on a cellular data plan | 16.2% | ±1.8 |
| Households with no internet subscription | 7.4% | ±1.2 |
Cable, fiber or DSL subscriptions were 73.4% (margin of error ±2.2 percentage points). Another 16.2% of households relied on a cellular data plan alone (margin of error ±1.8 percentage points), against 14.5%4 statewide. With a wired 100/20 Mbps option reported at 99.7%1 of locations, the gap between wired coverage and wired subscriptions is not a question of where the networks reach.
Albuquerque internet questions
What internet providers are available in Albuquerque?
Xfinity reports cable service at 99.7% of the city's locations and CenturyLink, mostly DSL, at 93.0%. Metronet (13.3%), AT&T (12.4%) and Ezee Fiber (10.7%1) report fiber in parts of the city. Verizon and T-Mobile report 5G or LTE home internet, smaller wireless companies such as NMSurf and Lobo Internet Services report fixed wireless, and HughesNet, Viasat and Starlink report satellite everywhere.
Is fiber internet available in Albuquerque?
At least one provider reports fiber at 34.0% of Albuquerque's locations as of June 30, 2026, against 36.4% for New Mexico and 62.6%1 for the US.
How many internet providers does Albuquerque have?
12 companies report wired or fixed wireless service somewhere in the city, 6 of them wired. At a given address, the count of wired providers offering 100/20 Mbps is one at 61.4% of locations, two at 32.7% and three or more at 5.5%1.
Is 5G home internet available in Albuquerque?
Verizon reports fixed wireless home internet at 70.8% of locations, with 100/20 Mbps at 41.4%; T-Mobile reports 69.5%, with 100/20 Mbps at 11.7%1. Carriers can turn down an address when a tower sector is full, so their own check decides.
Checking one address in Albuquerque
The figures on this page describe the whole area. Which providers report service at a single home or apartment is shown only on the FCC's own map: search the address at broadbandmap.fcc.gov. If a provider is listed there but cannot actually connect you within ten business days, or the location is missing or misplaced, the map has a button to file a challenge; providers must respond, and corrections flow into later releases. Prices and plans are not part of the FCC data: each provider must show them on its broadband facts label at the point of sale.
More on internet in New Mexico
The state picture, county by county: internet in New Mexico. Other large cities in the state: Las Cruces and Rio Rancho. Compare Albuquerque with any other city or state in the comparison tool.
Sources
- FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026; Availability as of June 30, 2026; released November 10, 2026. broadbandmap.fcc.gov
- FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2022; Availability as of June 30, 2022; released May 10, 2024. broadbandmap.fcc.gov
- FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of December 31, 2025; Availability as of December 31, 2025; released November 3, 2026. broadbandmap.fcc.gov
- Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year detailed tables; 2025 (calendar-year sample); released October 29, 2026. api.census.gov
- Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2019 1-year detailed tables; 2019. api.census.gov
Margins of error (±) are at the 90% confidence level. A difference is called significant only when it passes the Census Bureau's test at that level. How every figure is built: methodology. Found an error? Write to [email protected]; corrections are listed on the updates page.