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With $40 million in federal money promised by the USDA and an impending announcement about even more federal dollars for rural broadband expansion in rural New Mexico, wise heads who know essential services are moving online are surely also thinking about the workforce needed to maintain the infrastructure on which healthcare, business transactions and public education increasingly depend. Some Deming businesses who have been hobbled repeatedly by Xfinity service outages …

With $40 million in federal money promised by the USDA and an impending announcement about even more federal dollars for rural broadband expansion in rural New Mexico, wise heads who know essential services are moving online are surely also thinking about the workforce needed to maintain the infrastructure on which healthcare, business transactions and public education increasingly depend. Some Deming businesses who have been hobbled repeatedly by Xfinity service outages …

New Mexico is outpacing the national average for participation in the Affordable Connectivity Program.

New Mexico is outpacing the national average for participation in the Affordable Connectivity Program.

Dozens of movers and shakers and everyday residents from throughout southwest New Mexico gathered Friday, May 12 in Las Cruces with a key thought in mind: How can communities overcome many hurdles to bringing high-speed internet to all their residents, while also supporting people in accessing that new connectivity? Personnel with the New Mexico Office of Broadband Access and Expansion say they’ll use the input from Friday’s session and others …