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Its Time to Close the Digital Divide in Our County
Doña Ana Broadband is conducting this brief survey, in partnership with New Mexico DoIT (Department of Information Technology) to gather data on Internet connectivity for households and businesses throughout our county. Your answers will help shape strategic planning to improve Internet connectivity for all residents, students, seniors, and businesses.
Taking the Survey
The survey takes about 5-8 minutes to complete
and is available in both English and Spanish.
If your home or business currently has internet service,
please take this survey and speed test
from your home or business Internet connection.
The survey takes about 5-8 minutes to complete
and is available in both English and Spanish.
If your home or business currently has internet service,
please take this survey and speed test
from your home or business Internet connection.
For Homes & Businesses Without Internet Service
To report locations without internet service, take the survey by phone
or complete and submit a survey form at your local library, senior center, or community center.
Internet
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How will Internet Connectivity impact
Doña Ana Residents and Businesses?
Fast and reliable Internet connectivity creates opportunities. and provides our residents with the ability to access education, business, and healthcare resources as well as shopping and many other quality-of-life services for members of your household in addition to social, entertainment, and civic tasks.
Benefits include:
Benefits include:
- Education - remote learning or teaching, online training
- Business - remote working, business tasks, marketing, online sales or store
- Healthcare - physical and mental health support, appointments, prescriptions
- Household - pay bills, look for services, online shopping, online banking
- Social - connecting with family and/or friends, email, social media
- Entertainment - music, movies, TV, video games
- Civic - Civic duties, register to vote, serve as juror, find government agencies
- and more...
Internet Connectivity Basics
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What is Broadband?
Broadband is the transmission of a wide bandwidth of data over a high speed internet connection. Broadband provides high speed internet access via multiple types of technologies including DSL, cable, fiber optics, wireless, and satellite. What is Bandwidth? Bandwidth is the amount of data that can flow in a given amount of time. Bandwidth is measured in:
FCC Standards The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) currently recommends adequate Internet speeds to move data in megabits per second (Mbps):
Does your home or business have adequate baseline internet speeds?
Internet Access Internet is accessible through a variety of platforms, including but not limited to DSL, Cable Modem, Fiber Optics, Fixed Wireless, Mobile Wireless and Satellite. The connected community Broadband Internet is an important link to connect our community together and connect our community to the world. Whether urban or rural, broadband Internet can help our community thrive and connect citizens, businesses and local government to the education, business, health, and life tools and resources needed in a digital economy. |
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About
A collaborative project of Doña Ana Broadband in partnership with the New Mexico Department of Information Technology.
The Doña Ana Broadband (DAB) is a public-private regional partnership formed to collaboratively develop and implement a plan to increase access to affordable, efficient broadband, especially to Doña Ana County’s underserved communities, by December 2024.