Best Internet Plans in British Columbia (2026)
British Columbia buys internet from the same western lineup as Alberta and Saskatchewan — Telus fibre, the old Shaw cable network now branded Rogers Ignite, and a handful of resellers that operate across the West. What BC has that the rest of the West does not is an independent that owns its own fibre, and a reseller that prices this province differently from Ontario.
What BC has that Alberta doesn’t
VMedia prices BC as its own market. Its BC cable tier is $34.95/mo for 25 Mbps down — but the upload is 2.5 Mbps, where the company’s Ontario 30 Mbps tier gets 5. Same brand, same kind of plan, provisioned differently by province. If you moved here from Ontario and expect the plan you had, check the upload figure rather than the price.
Novus owns fibre in Vancouver. Most cheap providers in Canada resell somebody else’s line. Novus built its own, and sells symmetrical gigabit at $55/mo with two-year guaranteed pricing and no term commitment. It is the only row on this page that is both independent and running on its own network.
The catch is that Novus is Vancouver and nearby Lower Mainland municipalities, in Novus-wired buildings only — the table below labels it as such. For Victoria, Kelowna, Kamloops or Prince George it is not an option, and the province-wide answer is Telus or a western reseller. Vancouver readers should use the Vancouver guide, which is filtered to what actually reaches the city.
Cheaper alternatives across BC
The incumbents, and what the term costs you
Telus PureFibre has the widest fibre coverage in the province: $70/mo for symmetrical 500 Mbps, $105/mo for 1.5 Gbps down and 940 Mbps up — the one PureFibre tier Telus’s own terms say is not symmetrical. Rogers Ignite sells gigabit cable at $95/mo.
Both want a contract, and that is the real difference between them and the rows above — not speed, and not reliability. Every challenger on this page is month-to-month. Every incumbent one is not. Telus’s headline pricing assumes a two-year term, so compare it against a no-term plan over the full two years rather than month one.
Note also that Rogers Ignite’s gigabit is 1000 down and 50 up. Telus’s 500 Mbps tier is cheaper at $70/mo and uploads ten times faster. If uploads matter to you at all, the cheaper Telus plan is the better product — you are trading download headroom you probably will not use for upload you will.
Every BC plan we track
Picking one
- Vancouver, Novus-wired building: Novus. Independent, symmetrical, no term.
- Anywhere else in BC, uploads matter: Telus PureFibre 500 at $70/mo.
- Lowest usable bill: VMedia BC at $34.95/mo, if 2.5 Mbps upload is enough for you. It is a Videotron brand, not an independent.
- Symmetrical on a budget: oxio’s western tier is $49/mo for 50 down and 50 up, self-install, on the Rogers/Shaw cable network. Symmetrical speed on cable at that price is unusual.
- Only if you have read the speed: Wakey’s $29/mo is the cheapest unlimited plan in Canada and buys 5 Mbps down, half a megabit up — under the CRTC’s 50/10 basic-service target. Fine for one or two people browsing and banking; not a cheap version of a normal plan. Our Alberta guide works through where that tier does and doesn’t make sense.
One fee that no longer applies
Since June 12, 2026 a BC provider cannot charge you an activation or modification fee — the CRTC’s fee ban now covers the Internet Code, not just wireless. Installation work at your address is still chargeable, and a promotional rate tied to a term can still be clawed back if you leave early. The CRTC fee ban explainer has the full carve-outs.
What we checked in British Columbia, 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
VMedia25 down / 2.5 up · $34.95/moverified September 6, 2026
Verified 2026-08-22: Internet 25 at $34.95/mo, cable, unlimited, no term contract. Upload corrected 5 -> 2.5 Mbps — VMedia lists 2.5 up on the BC cable tier, where the Ontario 30 Mbps tier gets 5. VMedia prices by province, so this row is BC-only by design. Re-verified 2026-09-06 at $34.95, 25/2.5, cable. A brief edit that day recorded $45.95 here: that is ONTARIO's Internet 25, a different tier on FTTN at 25/10, sold beside Ontario's own 30 Mbps cable row. Both provinces sell a plan called "Internet 25" at different prices on different technology, so match on province and technology, not on the plan name. Not independent: VMedia has been a Videotron (Quebecor) brand since the CRTC approved the change of ownership on 2022-06-30, verified 2026-08-22.
Source: vmedia.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
Novus1000 down / 1000 up · $55/moVancouver onlyverified August 22, 2026
Symmetrical fibre, Vancouver and nearby Lower Mainland municipalities, in Novus buildings only. Verified 2026-08-22: Internet 1000 is $55/mo with 2-year guaranteed pricing. Was previously listed at $50, which is in fact the price of their 100 Mbps tier — the cheaper price had been paired with the faster speed. An earlier free-first-month claim could not be verified and has been dropped.
Source: novusnow.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
Availability in BC is address-specific and, for Novus, building-specific. Confirm your postal code with the provider before switching. Prices change without notice.
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