Internet providers in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
As of June 2026, providers reported wired internet of 100/20 Mbps or faster to 19.2% of the 22,482 units in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, which includes part of Española and Chama: about 1 in 5 of the county's units, against 82.8% across New Mexico. Counting fixed wireless, 86.2% of units had a non-satellite option of 100/20 Mbps or more. Starlink reported service to more than 99.9% of units, and 11 other providers, not counting the three large satellite providers, reported residential service at some speed.
FCC data as of June 2026, files of October 2026.
At a glance
| As reported to the FCC | Rio Arriba County | New Mexico |
|---|---|---|
| Units, as the FCC counts them | 22,482 | 1,080,020 |
| Units the FCC classes as rural | 64.6% | 29.0% |
| Wired service at any speed | 79.7% | 92.3% |
| Wired service of 25/3 Mbps or more | 39.0% | 86.0% |
| Wired service of 100/20 Mbps or more | 19.2% | 82.8% |
| Wired gigabit (1000/100 Mbps or more) | 13.6% | 45.3% |
| Fiber, 100/20 or more | 13.6% | 30.9% |
| Cable, 100/20 or more | 0.0% | 72.7% |
| Copper (DSL and similar), 25/3 or more | 28.4% | 36.0% |
| Licensed fixed wireless, 100/20 or more | 80.5% | 70.3% |
| Unlicensed fixed wireless, 100/20 or more | 0.2% | 40.2% |
| Any non-satellite service, 100/20 or more | 86.2% | 92.8% |
| Starlink (low-orbit satellite) | more than 99.9% | 99.7% |
| Geostationary satellite, 25/3 or more | 100.0% | more than 99.9% |
| Other providers | 11 | 51 |
Other providers: providers that report residential fixed service in the county at any speed, apart from the three large satellite providers, which report service in nearly every county. Fixed wireless providers count too, so this is not a count of wired providers.
Wired service
Fiber reached 13.6% of units at 100/20 or more; no cable service at that speed was reported. Wired gigabit service (1000/100 Mbps or more) reached 13.6% of units. Wired service of any speed reached 79.7% of units, against 19.2% at 100/20. If you have a wired connection now and are thinking about satellite, see Leaving a wired ISP.
Fixed wireless
Fixed wireless, from antennas on towers, reached 80.5% of units at 100/20 with licensed spectrum and 0.2% with unlicensed spectrum; with wired service, 86.2% had a non-satellite option at that speed.
Satellite
Starlink, a low-orbit satellite service, reported service to more than 99.9% of the county's units. Geostationary satellite service of 25/3 Mbps or more was reported for 100.0% of units.
Other providers
Other providers: providers that report residential fixed service in the county at any speed, apart from the three large satellite providers, which report service in nearly every county. Fixed wireless providers count too, so this is not a count of wired providers. In Rio Arriba County there were 11; the count says how many reported service, not how many units each one reaches.
Places in Rio Arriba County
The Census Bureau lists these places in Rio Arriba County: incorporated places (cities, towns, villages and boroughs) and census-designated places, unincorporated communities whose boundaries it draws for statistics. Beside each is its count of other providers, as defined above, for the whole place.
Incorporated places:
- Chama: 3 other providers
- Española, partly in Rio Arriba County: 9 other providers (the count is for the whole place)
Census-designated places:
- Abiquiu: 4 other providers
- Alcalde: 7 other providers
- Brazos: 2 other providers
- Canjilon: 2 other providers
- Canova: 4 other providers
- Cañones: 2 other providers
- Chamita: 8 other providers
- Chili: 5 other providers
- Chimayo, partly in Rio Arriba County: 7 other providers (the count is for the whole place)
- Cordova: 4 other providers
- Coyote: 2 other providers
- Dixon: 5 other providers
- Dulce: 5 other providers
- El Duende: 6 other providers
- El Rito: 6 other providers
- Ensenada: 2 other providers
- Gallina: 2 other providers
- Hernandez: 8 other providers
- La Madera: 2 other providers
- La Mesilla: 8 other providers
- La Villita: 7 other providers
- Lindrith: 1 other provider
- Los Luceros: 7 other providers
- Los Ojos: 4 other providers
- Lumberton: 4 other providers
- Lybrook: 3 other providers
- Lyden: 4 other providers
- Medanales: 6 other providers
- Ohkay Owingeh: 8 other providers
- Ojo Caliente, partly in Rio Arriba County: 4 other providers (the count is for the whole place)
- Ojo Sarco: 4 other providers
- Pueblito: 5 other providers
- Rio Chiquito, partly in Rio Arriba County: 5 other providers (the count is for the whole place)
- San Jose: 8 other providers
- Santa Clara Pueblo: 9 other providers
- Tierra Amarilla: 3 other providers
- Truchas: 3 other providers
- Velarde: 5 other providers
- Youngsville: 2 other providers
How Rio Arriba County compares
Across New Mexico, 86.0% of units had wired service of 25/3 Mbps or more and 82.8% had 100/20 or more; across the US, 93.8% and 93.1%. Rio Arriba County's figures are lower than both at each speed. With fixed wireless included, the share of units with a non-satellite option of 100/20 Mbps or more was 86.2% here, 92.8% across New Mexico and 96.4% across the US. Among the 2,858 counties of 3,000 units or more in the 50 states and DC, Rio Arriba County has the 21st-lowest share of units with wired 100/20 service. The FCC classes 64.6% of units in Rio Arriba County as rural.
Every county on this site is in the county list, by state, with its own figures. The other New Mexico county on this site is Catron County, New Mexico.
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About these numbers
The FCC counts units, not buildings: an apartment or condo building is one location in its data, and each of its units is counted. Each share is of the units where providers reported residential service at that speed or faster, by the most they advertise; none of it is a measured speed. Wired means copper (DSL and similar), cable and fiber, and any non-satellite service is the FCC's Any Terrestrial group, wired and fixed wireless together. The FCC's files don't define some of their own terms: how the FCC draws rural, what its lowest speed tier (this page's "any speed") covers beyond its name, how a provider's share of a county's units is counted, and whether licensed-by-rule fixed wireless sits with the licensed or the unlicensed group. The rule that chose the counties is under How the counties were chosen, and the FCC's map is the place to check one address.
Source data: FCC Broadband Data Collection, National Broadband Map, availability as of June 2026 as reported by internet providers (FCC files of October 2026). This product uses FCC APIs and/or Data but is not endorsed or certified by the FCC.
Places: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 FIPS codes for places (file of February 2023); towns named in the page's first sentence are ordered by its Vintage 2025 population estimates for cities and towns (file of May 2026).