New Mexico’s Office of Broadband Access and Expansion will give southern New Mexico internet providers more than $1.25 million to repair broadband infrastructure in parts of Lincoln County hit by fires and floods.

The state awarded $1 million to Peñasco Valley Telephone Cooperative and $251,300 to TDS Telecom, OBAE announced in a news release Thursday. The money comes from New Mexico’s $117 million allotment to increase broadband access from the American Rescue Plan Act, a COVID stimulus bill.

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