![]() ![]() This means not everyone has access to this faster technology, but in areas where fiber exists, it could well be worth the upgrade. This often means that fiber deployments are limited to areas with high population density where providers are more likely to recoup costs. Infrastructure improvements like laying fiber are very expensive as they often require providers to dig up city streets to physically lay new lines. There is clearly a lot of room to expand fiber access to additional Canadian provinces, places that currently show lower fixed broadband speeds overall. Bell Fiber and TELUS Fiber don’t provide service in the following provinces, but we’ve provided their median fixed broadband speeds for comparison: Northwest Territories (55.63 Mbps download / 11.45 Mbps upload), Nunavut (insufficient data), Saskatchewan (68.43 Mbps / 17.04 Mbps), Yukon (43.96 Mbps / 10.56 Mbps). There were insufficient samples to analyze Bell Fiber, operating as Bell MTS, in Manitoba where the fixed broadband averages were 83.06 Mbps (download) and 16.13 Mbps (upload). TELUS Fiber was faster than other fixed broadband for upload speeds in Alberta (7.5x) and British Columbia (5.3x). Bell Fiber showed a huge advantage over other fixed broadband for median upload speeds in all provinces as follows: New Brunswick (7.4x), Newfoundland (10.9x), Nova Scotia (11.5x), Ontario (10.8x), Prince Edward Island (12.4x), and Québec (8.5x). Upload speed is the major differentiator for fiber compared to other fixed broadband technologies. TELUS Fiber was faster than other fixed broadband in Alberta (1.9x) and British Columbia (1.4x). Bell Fiber was faster than the market average of other internet providers for median download speeds in New Brunswick (1.8x), Newfoundland (1.8x), Nova Scotia (1.9x), Ontario (2.4x), Prince Edward Island (3.1x), and Québec (3.3x). Our analysis of Speedtest Intelligence data from all Canadian provinces during Q4 2021 showed that fiber from Bell and TELUS is faster than median speeds for all other fixed broadband providers combined. Fiber upload speeds are up to 12x faster at the provincial level in Canadaīell and TELUS serve different parts of the country with their fiber offerings so we’ve analyzed each province with an eye to how much faster the relevant fiber provider’s offerings are compared to the median speeds for all other fixed broadband providers combined. We’ve looked at speeds in provinces and in major cities in Canada. We’ve analyzed new data from Speedtest Intelligence® in Canada during Q4 2021 to help provide an answer for consumers as fiber connectivity expands across Canada. Consumers want faster internet but they often wonder whether it’s worth the extra money to upgrade from services like DSL to fiber-optic broadband, sometimes referred to as fiber-to-the-home (FTTH). ![]()
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