Best Internet Plans in Alberta (2026)
Alberta has the thinnest independent bench of any large province we track: seven plans, and only four of them come from a challenger — two Wakey cable tiers, one oxio, and Wakey’s new fibre plan. What Alberta mostly gets is the western regional lineup, sold the same way in Saskatchewan and BC.
That is changing at the edges. On September 4, 2026 we confirmed that TekSavvy advertises city-wide 1.5 Gbps fibre in Calgary and lists sixteen Alberta cities it serves, and that Wakey now sells symmetrical gigabit fibre over Telus’s fibre footprint — the first independent FTTH we have tracked in this province. On September 7 we priced TekSavvy’s Alberta lineup for the first time, from $60.95/mo for 30 Mbps cable to $129.95/mo for that 1.5 Gbps fibre tier. Both providers are address-by-address, and neither has moved the province-wide picture much yet.
That shapes the advice on this page more than any individual price does.
The short answer
Telus PureFibre if you want the connection; oxio if you want the bill. Telus’s symmetrical 500 Mbps is $70/mo and its 1.5 Gbps — 1500 down, 940 up, the one tier Telus’s own terms exempt from its symmetrical claim — is $105/mo, both on a two-year term. oxio is $49/mo for 50 down and 50 up, month-to-month, self-install, on the Rogers/Shaw cable network.
There is not much in between, and that is the Alberta problem in one line.
The duopoly, and why it holds here
Alberta’s two networks are Telus fibre and the former Shaw cable plant, now sold as Rogers Ignite at $95/mo for gigabit. Telus has built fibre widely across Calgary, Edmonton and a long list of smaller communities; Rogers inherited the cable footprint.
In Ontario, that same structure sits underneath five or six resellers who buy wholesale access and undercut it. In Alberta the resellers barely showed up. oxio runs on the Rogers/Shaw lines, Wakey sells two cheap cable tiers plus a new fibre plan, and TekSavvy turned up in the big cities in 2026. That is still a short list. With fewer challengers there is less downward pressure, which is why Alberta’s mid-market — the $50-to-$70 band where most households actually want to be — is nearly empty: oxio’s $49 50 Mbps and TekSavvy’s $60.95 30 Mbps are the whole of it, and neither is fast.
The practical consequence: your leverage in Alberta is the term, not the competitor. You are unlikely to find a cheaper equivalent to quote at a retention agent. What you can do is refuse to sign a two-year commitment without a price that pays for it.
Cheaper alternatives in Alberta
About that $29
Wakey’s $29/mo is the cheapest unlimited home internet we track in Canada, and the number gets quoted a lot without the speed attached to it. It buys 5 Mbps down and 0.5 Mbps up — below the CRTC’s 50/10 Mbps basic-service target, and below what a single HD stream needs.
It is a real plan and it suits a real household: one or two people, browsing, email, banking, no streaming to a TV. It is not a cheap version of a normal plan. Wakey’s 25 Mbps tier at $40/mo$45 is the realistic entry point, and worth comparing against oxio’s $49/mo for twice the download and twenty times the upload.
We track Wakey’s regular $40$45 rather than the promotional price it has been running, so the figure does not understate once the promo lapses.
Every Alberta plan we track
Picking one
- Uploads matter — video calls, large files, working from home: Telus PureFibre 500 at $70/mo. Symmetrical, and the Rogers gigabit alternative uploads at 50 Mbps against Telus’s 500.
- You want the lowest sensible bill: oxio at $49/mo, no contract, self-install.
- Very light use, one or two devices: Wakey, once you have read the speed.
- You are being sold the 1.5 Gbps tier: ask what you would do with it. $105/mo against $70/mo is real money for headroom most homes never touch.
The activation fee is gone
Since June 12, 2026, an Alberta provider cannot charge an activation or modification fee — the CRTC extended its fee ban to the Internet Code. This matters more here than in most provinces, because with so few alternatives the main cost of switching used to be the friction of doing it. Installation at your address is still chargeable, and leaving a term early can still cost you the promo rate. See the CRTC fee ban explainer.
What we checked in Alberta, and when
Each price below carries the date it was verified. Where we previously had it wrong, the correction is logged rather than quietly overwritten.
Wakey5 down / 0.5 up · $29/moCORRECTEDverified August 26, 2026
Wakey's "Starter 5" — this is what the $29 headline price actually buys, and the cheapest unlimited home internet we track. Verified 2026-08-26.
CORRECTED 2026-08-26: this row previously claimed 25 Mbps down / 5 up at $29, which welded the $29 Starter price onto a separate 25 Mbps tier that costs $45 (now tracked as wakey-everyday-25). The old figures were wrong. At 5 Mbps down / 512 Kbps up this sits below the CRTC 50/10 basic-service target: fine for browsing, email and banking on one or two devices, not for HD streaming or work-from-home.
Source: wakeyinternet.ca
Wakey25 down / 2.5 up · $45/moverified August 26, 2026
Wakey's "Everyday 25". Verified 2026-08-26: $45/mo regular, cut to $40 under a Zap-Sale promo with no published end date. We track the regular $45 so the row does not understate once the promo lapses. Wakey also sells a "Starter 10" (10 down / 1 up) between this and Starter 5, unpriced until 2026-09-04, when it began listing $35/mo; not yet tracked. Ontario is a separate, more expensive ladder starting at $45 for "Everyday 30" and is not covered by this row.
Source: wakeyinternet.ca
oxio50 down / 50 up · $49/moverified August 30, 2026
On Rogers/Shaw cable, self-install
Source: oxio.ca
TekSavvy30 down / 5 up · $60.95/moverified September 7, 2026
TekSavvy's entry cable tier in the West, on the former Shaw footprint. Verified 2026-09-07: $60.95/mo regular, 30 down / 5 up, unlimited, no term contract. New customers get a $28/mo credit for 12 months, recorded as an offer. TekSavvy's western rate card is a different card from its Ontario one — the same tier costs more here.
Source: teksavvy.com
Telus500 down / 500 up · $70/moverified August 30, 2026
PureFibre, price on 2-yr term
Source: telus.com
TekSavvy100 down / 100 up · $80.95/moverified September 7, 2026
The mainstream cable tier in the West, on the former Shaw footprint. Verified 2026-09-07: $80.95/mo regular, 100 down / 100 up, unlimited, no term contract. New customers get a $32/mo credit for 12 months, recorded as an offer. The 100 up is not a typo: TekSavvy quotes it on this footprint as well as in Ontario, which is why both rows carry it. TekSavvy's western rate card is a different card from its Ontario one — the same tier costs more here.
Source: teksavvy.com
Wakey1000 down / 1000 up · $129/moverified September 4, 2026
Wakey's "Supercharged Fibre 1000" — symmetrical fibre-to-the-home, the first independent FTTH plan we track in Alberta or BC. Verified 2026-09-04: $129/mo regular, cut to $89 under Fibre Launch Pricing, a limited-time offer with no published end date. We track the regular $129, matching how the Wakey cable rows are handled, so the row does not understate once the launch price lapses. Wakey says this service runs where existing TELUS PureFibre infrastructure is available, through a last-mile fibre partner, and lists Calgary first among common service areas; the wholesale arrangement is not named and is unverified. Month-to-month, professional install included, Wi-Fi 7 router included with no rental fee. Two costs the headline price does not show: a $120 refundable security deposit, and a $110 + tax Installation Recovery Fee if the account is cancelled inside 180 days. Install runs about 10-14 business days. Availability is confirmed case by case — Wakey's online fibre qualification tool is still under development.
Source: wakeyinternet.ca
Rogers1000 down / 50 up · $95/moCORRECTEDverified August 30, 2026
Rogers' Ignite Gigabit cable tier.
CORRECTED 2026-08-30: this note previously read "former Shaw footprint out West", which no longer describes the row — Ontario was added on 2026-08-30, and the list already reached Atlantic Canada before that. The province list records where we have verified the plan is sold; it is not a footprint history.
Source: rogers.com
Telus1500 down / 940 up · $105/moCORRECTEDverified September 4, 2026
PureFibre 1.5 Gigabit, sold on a 2-year term in BC and Alberta.
CORRECTED 2026-09-04: this row read $85 and 1500/1500. Both were wrong. TELUS's own Calgary internet page states the price twice — offer footnote 2 says "From month 1-60, the internet plan price is $105/mo" for new and existing BC/Alberta customers on a new 2 year term, and footnote 3 gives "PureFibre 1.5 Gigabit is currently $105/mo" as the regular price. The same page's footnote 6 says TELUS speeds are symmetrical "with the exception of PureFibre Internet 1.5G where the download speed is 1500 Mbps and upload speed is 940 Mbps", so the tier is 1500/940, not symmetrical. Unlimited data is included on the 2-year term ($20/mo add-on at month 25 otherwise). Early termination of the 24-month agreement costs $480, declining $20 for each month served. Price carries a 5-year plan price lock from activation.
Source: telus.com
TekSavvy1000 down / 200 up · $127.95/moverified September 7, 2026
Gigabit cable in the West, on the former Shaw footprint. Verified 2026-09-07: $127.95/mo regular, unlimited, no term contract. New customers get a $50/mo credit for 12 months, recorded as an offer. TekSavvy's western rate card is a different card from its Ontario one — the same tier costs more here.
Source: teksavvy.com
TekSavvy1500 down / 940 up · $129.95/moverified September 7, 2026
The 1.5 Gbps fibre tier in the West, carried over Telus fibre. Verified 2026-09-07: $129.95/mo regular, 1500 down / 940 up, unlimited, no term contract. New customers get a $20/mo credit for 12 months, recorded as an offer. TekSavvy's own offer terms limit it to select regions of BC and Alberta, and it is qualified address by address rather than city-wide, so "city-wide" claims are worth checking against your own address. Priced $10 above the Ontario 1.5 Gbps row, which rides a different wholesale fibre network.
Source: teksavvy.com
Telus PureFibre coverage is wide but not universal, particularly in newer subdivisions and rural addresses. Confirm at your postal code before assuming fibre. Prices change without notice.
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