New Mexico Broadband Office Likely to Downsize After BEAD
Colorado and Texas officials said their broadband offices would focus on other programs with current staff.
DALLAS, April 15, 2026 – The New Mexico broadband office is likely to downsize after it’s done managing the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program, a top official said Tuesday.
“In New Mexico, we do have a plan, and I think the plan will be to scale down a little bit,” Aquiles Trujillo, deputy director of the New Mexico Office of Broadband Access & Expansion, said at the Connected America show in Dallas. “I think after BEAD is over, we’ll have a much smaller office.”
The office intentionally scaled up to ensure enough local knowledge was brought to bear on a challenging problem of connecting people in the sparsely populated state, according to Trujillo. He said the office would likely focus on addressing broadband affordability and Tribal connectivity issues when it did scale back.
