Southern Alberta, town by town

What the government map claims, what's actually in the ground, and who sells service on it. Each page puts the official numbers next to what we can show from public sources.

Reading the map

Fibre route
Alberta SuperNet fibre (province's 2005/06 map)
Internet exchange
Idea under research
Local fibre network
Infrastructure

How sure we are

documented
reported
inferred

Where fibre or cable is reported (government data)Where fixed wireless is reported (government data)Government's 50/10 claim (any technology)

Fixed wireless reported
No fixed wireless reported

Over 75% of households at 50/10
50 to 75%
25 to 50%
Up to 25%
None

Fibre to the home reported
Cable reported, no fibre
No fibre or cable reported

Best measured speed (Speedtest)

Download 500 Mbps or more
Download 100–500 Mbps
Download 50–100 Mbps
Download under 50 Mbps

Upload 300 Mbps or more
Upload 100–300 Mbps
Upload 30–100 Mbps
Upload under 30 Mbps

Wireless-like results only
Faint: one or two devices

Communities

Share of roads where ISED's National Broadband Data reports wired service at 50/10 Mbps or better. Wired service only; the rest is a slower tier or no wired service reported.

Airdrie 61% at 50/10
Bow Island 14% at 50/10
Brooks 32% at 50/10
Chestermere 53% at 50/10
Coaldale 38% at 50/10
Cochrane 58% at 50/10
Crowsnest Pass 45% at 50/10
Drumheller 16% at 50/10
High River 39% at 50/10
Lethbridge 57% at 50/10
Medicine Hat 60% at 50/10
Okotoks 43% at 50/10
Redcliff 49% at 50/10
Strathmore 42% at 50/10
Taber 29% at 50/10

Source: National Broadband Data, ISED, retrieved 2026-10-17.

Rural southern Alberta

The 46,396 km of road outside these communities and Calgary, by whether the government data reports 50/10 Mbps or better:

Wired only (cable, DSL, fibre) 2% at 50/10
Wired plus fixed wireless (the government map's scope) 71% at 50/10

Almost all of the government map's rural 50/10 comes from fixed wireless. Source: National Broadband Data, ISED (wired and combined road layers), retrieved 2026-10-17. How to read this.