By Marty Mayfield
KRTN Multi-Media
Resound Networks will be bringing 1 gig speed internet service to parts of Raton/Colfax County with construction beginning in the areas east and north of the railroad tracks very soon and finishing up in the next year.
Resound held a small ceremonial groundbreaking at the Raton Aquatic Center Tuesday morning July 22, 2025, to announce the construction of high-speed internet to 1370 locations in Raton. Resound will also offer wireless internet with speeds approaching 1 Gig using new wireless technology. According to their website Resound will not throttle your internet connect or limit you with arbitrary data caps.
Currently most of Raton is served with fiber connectivity provided by Baca Valley Telephone via a PRCA grant to bring fiber internet to locations west of the railroad tracks and south to the La Mesa Drive area in south Raton. According to Director Jeff Lopez office of Broadband Access and Expansion the PRCA grants have no minimum speed limits on their grant money as does the grants that Resound applied for. The minimum speed limit for the Resound grants is 100 mbps up and down, however Resound will up that and offer 1 gig service to Raton customers.
Resound has applied for and received $55.1 million on Rural Digital Opportunity Funds and $10.75 million from the Student Connect program. According to Adrienne Ryholt “Resound is investing over $6million in Raton — not just in fiber and towers — but in the future of education, healthcare, local business, and civic life.” With medical telehelp becoming more of an application high speed internet is even more important than ever. Most of the construction will be overhead with some underground cabling being put in place.
Resound Networks is a small company started in Pampa Texas by three friends, Tyson, Brian and Chad who wanted to help the small, overlooked communities with broadband internet connectivity. Raton is one of those communities that they felt needed to be served. With the help of many Raton officials Resound will make that happen. When the City hired Rick Mesatas as city manager one of his goals was to bring broadband internet service to Raton. Mestas noted in his remark Tuesday that housing and workforce go hand in hand with broadband to allow people to work remotely and have a house to live in. Mestas can now check broadband off that list of things to get done.
