Viasat Satellite Internet in New Mexico

Viasat provides satellite internet service across New Mexico using its advanced ViaSat-2 and ViaSat-3 satellite constellation. Unlike cable or fiber providers that require physical infrastructure running to each home, Viasat beams internet directly from orbit to a small dish installed on your roof. This makes it available virtually everywhere in New Mexico, from the high desert mesas, Rio Grande Valley, and the southern Rocky Mountains. New Mexico's vast tribal lands and remote desert communities face some of the worst broadband access in the nation, and Viasat fills that critical gap by delivering broadband speeds without needing a single mile of cable or fiber.

Viasat has invested heavily in its next-generation satellite fleet, with the ViaSat-3 constellation delivering significantly more capacity than previous generations. For New Mexico residents, this means faster speeds and more consistent performance, particularly with the new Unleashed plan lineup. These contract-free plans offer unlimited data, a major shift from Viasat's earlier offerings that had priority data thresholds. New Mexico's Native American communities, covering roughly 10% of the state's land area, have broadband access rates far below state and national averages, which makes Viasat's expanding capacity especially impactful here.

Albuquerque and Santa Fe have adequate broadband, but vast stretches of New Mexico between population centers have no wired infrastructure. With speeds up to 300 Mbps on the Unleashed 300+ plan and no data caps to worry about, Viasat has evolved from a last-resort option into a genuinely competitive broadband choice for rural New Mexico households. The company's shift toward unlimited data and faster speeds reflects growing demand from remote workers, telehealth patients, and streaming households in the Navajo Nation, Pueblo communities, rural Catron County, and the boot heel region.