Drumheller

Population 7,909 (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 Drumheller 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)	977	170	600	91	420
Rogers (Shaw network)	344	110	480	58	170

The fastest tenth by year, download / upload:

Provider	2024	2025	2026 (Jan–Sep)
TELUS (incl. NETAGO)	560 / 370	600 / 420	790 / 540
Rogers (Shaw network)	300 / 130	480 / 170	510 / 180

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

Best wired speed reported	Share of roads
50/10 Mbps	16%
25/5 Mbps	0%
10/2 Mbps	0%
5/1 Mbps	under 1%
No wired service reported	84%

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 27 government-data hexagons with 5 or more households in and around Drumheller, by what providers report in them:

Reported in the hexagon	Hexagons
Fibre to the home reported	6
Cable reported, no fibre	1
No fibre or cable reported	20

Fibre to the home reported by 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 Drumheller has reached, up to 2026 (Jan–Sep) (279 squares tested). Share of squares by best download:

Best download	Share of squares
500 Mbps or more	13%
100–500 Mbps	16%
50–100 Mbps	8%
Under 50 Mbps	40%
Only wireless-like results	23%

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	113	27%	12%
2020	150	25%	14%
2021	189	27%	18%
2022	212	28%	24%
2023	241	26%	25%
2024	257	25%	24%
2025	264	25%	25%
2026 (Jan–Sep)	279	29%	23%

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 Drumheller 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 Drumheller. It was never built to reach homes (what SuperNet is).

Alberta SuperNet base network fibreSuperNet fibrereportedapproximate path

The SuperNet's base network, fibre linking 27 larger centres, including Calgary, Brooks, Medicine Hat and Lethbridge. Bell built and owns it. SuperNet carries traffic for public buildings; it was never fibre to homes. Traced from Service Alberta's SuperNet map (2005/06, in Cybera's 2021 report); some paths have changed since.

Owner: Bell Canada. Source: wiki.cybera.ca, checked 2026-10-19.
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.

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