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State Planning

2020 New Mexico Broadband Strategic Plan

Read the 2020 New Mexico Broadband Strategic Plan
created by
CTC Technology & Energy. for the State of New Mexico.
Read the Plan

New Mexico Broadband Program Office

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Raja Sambandam, Acting Cabinet Secretary
​Rand Tilton, Program Manager
Gar Clarke, Project Manager
  • NMBBP Map.
  • Local Broadband Planning Guide (PDF) 2022
  • NM Reports
  • NM Technical Assistance Program
  • BB Statewide Price Agreement​
  • State of New Mexico Broadband Strategic Plan and Rural Broadband Assessment (June 2020) (PDF)​
  • New Mexico Broadband Digital Literacy Strategic Plan (December 2014)
  • BB Community Guidebook (2013)
  • New Mexico Homework Gap Team​

New Mexico Office of Broadband Access and Expansion
​Broadband Advisor

Matt Schmit will serve as the broadband advisor for the newly-formed state Office of Broadband Access and Expansion. Schmit will centralize and coordinate broadband activities across all agencies and internet service providers to focus on "significant broadband deployment and expansion" for the state.
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Schmit has served as director of the Illinois Office of Broadband since 2019. His responsibilities there have included the administration of $400 million in grant funding, community broadband planning and capacity programming and the state’s digital equity and inclusion program. Prior to that, Schmit worked as an independent technology and economic development consultant and in various leadership and research roles at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis from 2005 through 2018. From 2013 through 2016 he was a member of the Minnesota state senate, representing a district in the southeastern part of the state, where he led a 20-city statewide outreach and engagement tour focused on soliciting public input on broadband internet access and availability, leading to creation of a state broadband office. He graduated from St. John’s University in Minnesota with an undergraduate degree in political science and earned a master’s in public policy from the University of Minnesota. 

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“Recent federal investment in broadband gives states, local communities, and internet service providers an unprecedented opportunity to close the digital divide through universal access, adoption assistance, and skills building,” Schmit said. “No state stands to benefit more from this investment than New Mexico, and I am eager to see this promise become reality.”

​OBAE April 7 2021
Office of Broadband Access and Expansion

Connect New Mexico Council

The members of the Connect New Mexico Council:
  • Jeremy Lovato,
    Department of Transportation Designee
  • Juan Torres,
    Department of Economic Development Designee
  • Eli Guinnee,
    Department of Cultural Affairs Designee
  • Raja Sambandam,
    Department of Information Technology
  • Joseph Navarreté,
    New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority Designee
  • Bogi Malecki,
    Department of Higher Education Designee
  • Jonathan Chamblin,
    ​Public Schools Facilities Authority
  • Luis Reyes, Speaker of the House Appointee
    Kit Carson Electric Cooperative
  • Launa B. Waller,​
    ​Minority House Floor Leader  Appointee
  • Katherine Crociata,
    Senate President Pro Tempore Appointee
  • Steve L. Grey, Senate
    Minority Floor Leader Appointee
  • Jim R. Ruybal,
    Governor Appointee
  • Christopher Becenti,
    Navajo Nation
  • Godfrey Enjady,
    Apache Government
  • Kimball Sekaquaptewa,
    ​Pueblo Government
Interim Chair - Kimball Sekaquaptewa
Interim Vice Chair - Luis Reyes

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This website initially established in response to community needs by CommUNITY Learning Network (CLN) with support from the, National Science Foundation Smart and Connected Cities Pueblo Connect initiative and the Broadband Office of the New Mexico Department of Information Technology (NM DoIT) as well as other collaborating agencies and advocates listed here.
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