For broadband and 5G, it sets the baseline performance at 25Mbps download and 3Mbps upload. Ookla calculates the consistency score by counting the percentage of submitted sample data that are above a minimum threshold. Bell had the lowest at 5ms, but even Cogeco, the worst performer on the list, only had 14ms. Telus, achieving a score of 128.97, was slightly outpaced by Cogeco which scored 136.38.Īll of Canada’s major broadband providers had excellent latency. Rogers was a close second at 183.63 and Bell in third at 153.67. It ended the year with a Speed Score of 197.22, which is weighted for 80 per cent download and 20 per cent upload speeds. West coast service provider Shaw Communications held the top spot through 2021 for the fastest median fixed broadband speeds.

The report ranks service providers using Ookla’s derived metrics such as Speed Score and Consistency Score. The Ookla report requires at least 300 unique user results from a country in order to be considered valid. Canada’s median broadband download speeds in Q4 2021.

The median upload speed also rose slightly from 16.28 Mbps to 21.69 Mbps. Fixed broadbandĪccording to Ookla‘s report, Canada’s median broadband download speed rose from 78.25 Mbps in January to 99.76 Mbps in December 2021. Artificial Intelligence (465) Auto Tech (47) Blockchain (173) CanadianCIO (96) Careers & Education (4433) Channel Strategy (35) Cloud (2083) Communications & Telecom (419) Companies (1045) Data & Analytics (828) Development (732) Digital Transformation (1233) Distribution (126) Diversity & Inclusion (65) Ecommerce (91) Emerging Tech (24216) End User Hardware (50) Engineering (79) Financial (163) FinTech (86) Future of Work (347) Governance (106) Government & Public Sector (6078) Human Resources (861) Infrastructure (8522) IoT (6173) ITWC Morning Briefing (129) Leadership (4287) Legal (162) Legislation (167) Managed Services & Outsourcing (4311) Marketing (61) MarTech (3) Medical (31) Mobility (3429) Not For Profit (23) Open Source (30) Operations (85) People (149) Podcasts (2115) Privacy (641) Project Management (1099) Security (8001) Service (44) Smart Home (18) SMB (59) Social Networks (201) Software (4165) Supply Chain (122) Sustainability (106) Tech in Sports (5) Women in Tech (188)Ĭanada’s fixed broadband speeds jumped by 27 per cent in 2021, and mobile network download speeds increased by 15 per cent since July, says Ookla’s Canada Mobile and Fixed Broadband Internet Speeds report for Q4 2021.

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