Cochrane

Population 32,199 (2021 Census)

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

Wired service by road (government data)Fixed wireless service by road (government data)Best of wired and fixed wireless, by road (government data)

50/10 Mbps
25/5 Mbps
10/2 Mbps
5/1 Mbps
No wired service reportedNo fixed wireless reportedNo wired or fixed wireless reported

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

Speeds by provider

M-Lab speed tests from Cochrane in 2025, by the network they ran on (Mbps). The fastest tenth shows what a network can deliver.

Provider	Tests	Download		Upload
Provider	Tests	Typical	Fastest 10%	Typical	Fastest 10%
TELUS (incl. NETAGO)	5,874	220	860	110	780
Rogers (Shaw network)	4,602	200	520	74	170
TekSavvy	138	110	290	37	100
OXIO	83	100	230	16	130
AEBC Internet	54	44	180	20	85

The fastest tenth by year, download / upload:

Provider	2024	2025	2026 (Jan–Sep)
TELUS (incl. NETAGO)	610 / 430	860 / 780	800 / 660
Rogers (Shaw network)	390 / 130	520 / 170	540 / 180
TekSavvy	330 / 98	290 / 100	360 / 97
OXIO	–	230 / 130	–
AEBC Internet	–	180 / 85	–

Satellite, across Alberta in 2025: Starlink typically 75 down and 7.1 up, fastest tenth 200 / 14; Xplore typically 30 down and 2.8 up, fastest tenth 72 / 12.

Source: The M-Lab NDT Data Set, 2024-01-01 to 2026-09-30, queried 2026-10-22, CC0. How to read this.

What the government map says

The 223 km of road in and around Cochrane, by the best wired speed providers report along it (download/upload, Mbps).

Best wired speed reported	Share of roads
50/10 Mbps	58%
25/5 Mbps	0%
10/2 Mbps	0%
5/1 Mbps	1%
No wired service reported	41%

Source: National Broadband Data, ISED, retrieved 2026-10-17. How to read this.

Who can get gigabit

Fibre and cable can deliver 1 Gbps. Of the 10 government-data hexagons with 5 or more households in and around Cochrane, by what providers report in them:

Reported in the hexagon	Hexagons
Fibre to the home reported	6
Cable reported, no fibre	2
No fibre or cable reported	2

Fibre to the home reported by Shaw and Telus. Cable reported by Rogers and Shaw. (Names as ISED lists them; Rogers bought Shaw in 2023.)

Across southern Alberta, 911 of the 1,102 populated hexagons the government map counts at 50/10 have no fibre or cable reported at all (83%).

Reach, not how many homes can order gigabit. Source: National Broadband Data, ISED (providers by hexagon), retrieved 2026-10-17. How to read this.

Measured speeds

The best wired-like Speedtest result each ~390 m square in and around Cochrane has reached, up to 2026 (Jan–Sep) (376 squares tested). Share of squares by best download:

Best download	Share of squares
500 Mbps or more	30%
100–500 Mbps	31%
50–100 Mbps	13%
Under 50 Mbps	16%
Only wireless-like results	10%

Share of squares tested so far whose best reached 100 Mbps; fast upload is a good sign of fibre. The slider under the map shows the same years.

Year	Squares	100+ down	100+ up
2019	219	54%	11%
2020	267	55%	19%
2021	311	56%	28%
2022	332	56%	32%
2023	343	58%	38%
2024	354	59%	44%
2025	367	58%	47%
2026 (Jan–Sep)	376	61%	49%

Source: Speedtest® by Ookla®, 2019 to 2026 (Jan–Sep), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; full credit under Sources. How to read this.

What's actually in the ground

We haven’t researched what’s in the ground in Cochrane yet. The map and speed data above come straight from public sources.

Infrastructure and exchanges

Alberta SuperNet fibre, built with public money for public buildings, reaches Cochrane. It was never built to reach homes (what SuperNet is).

Alberta SuperNet extended area fibreSuperNet fibrereportedapproximate path

The SuperNet's extended area network, fibre to about 400 smaller communities, which the province paid $193 million to build. Bell has run all of SuperNet since 2018. It reaches the Montana border at Coutts. Traced from Service Alberta's SuperNet map (2005/06, in Cybera's 2021 report); wireless links are left out, and some paths have changed since.

Owner: Alberta SuperNet (Bell). Source: wiki.cybera.ca, checked 2026-10-19.

High level only: what exists, roughly where, and who owns it. Know of something public that's missing? The About page explains how to send a correction.

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