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Quebec has high-speed internet available to all residents. Either fibre to the home, or subsidized StarLink. Canada as a whole is expected to have 90% high spe

by gramie 23d ago

Quebec has high-speed internet available to all residents. Either fibre to the home, or subsidized StarLink. Canada as a whole is expected to have 90% high speed internet by the end of 2026, and 100% by 2030.

betaby 23d ago
`high-speed internet` is not necessary a fiber though. As recent as 2025 Videotron had been receiving subsidies to build cable network in a newly constructed neighborhood.
- gramie 23d ago
  You are right, there is cable as well. I'm in an area that does not have cable, so our internet is all fibre. Still, cable can get up to 1Gbps, and probably higher, so it's a distinction without a difference. The push to make sure that 100% of people have access to high-speed internet is the most important thing.
  - betaby 23d ago
    > cable can get up to 1Gbps, and probably higher, so it's a distinction without a difference. Heavily disagree. There is a distinction with a big difference. Currently deployed by Videotron cable solution is 940Mbps down and only 50Mbps up. That's an abysmal upload speed. Of course Videotron is aware that cable is dead end. (even though they still building it on subsidies). That's why Videotron is offering to switch to Bell's fiber in some locations.
thunderfork 23d ago
And there's been almost no fiber laid for the last two years after Bell bought up the companies that were actually doing innovative rollout :/ "Cable is equivalent" only if you don't need/want a symmetric connection - until they lay fiber I'm stuck with an awful upload speed.
bryanlarsen 23d ago
The Quebec Starlink subsidy program was terminated in early 2026, AFAICT. I'm not sure if it was for explicitly political reasons like the termination of the similar Ontario program was.
kingstnap 23d ago
A random blight in Canada in that Bell still hasn't enabled IPv6 for residential plans. You can get 8 Gigabit symmetric home internet from Bell but not IPv6.
xboxnolifes 23d ago
How high speed is "high-speed" internet in this context? In the US, high-speed internet can mean anything better than DSL.

by gramie 23d ago

betaby 23d ago

`high-speed internet` is not necessary a fiber though. As recent as 2025 Videotron had been receiving subsidies to build cable network in a newly constructed neighborhood.

gramie 23d ago
You are right, there is cable as well. I'm in an area that does not have cable, so our internet is all fibre. Still, cable can get up to 1Gbps, and probably higher, so it's a distinction without a difference. The push to make sure that 100% of people have access to high-speed internet is the most important thing.
- betaby 23d ago
  > cable can get up to 1Gbps, and probably higher, so it's a distinction without a difference. Heavily disagree. There is a distinction with a big difference. Currently deployed by Videotron cable solution is 940Mbps down and only 50Mbps up. That's an abysmal upload speed. Of course Videotron is aware that cable is dead end. (even though they still building it on subsidies). That's why Videotron is offering to switch to Bell's fiber in some locations.

thunderfork 23d ago

And there's been almost no fiber laid for the last two years after Bell bought up the companies that were actually doing innovative rollout :/ "Cable is equivalent" only if you don't need/want a symmetric connection - until they lay fiber I'm stuck with an awful upload speed.

bryanlarsen 23d ago

The Quebec Starlink subsidy program was terminated in early 2026, AFAICT. I'm not sure if it was for explicitly political reasons like the termination of the similar Ontario program was.

kingstnap 23d ago

A random blight in Canada in that Bell still hasn't enabled IPv6 for residential plans. You can get 8 Gigabit symmetric home internet from Bell but not IPv6.

xboxnolifes 23d ago

How high speed is "high-speed" internet in this context? In the US, high-speed internet can mean anything better than DSL.