Where would you have guessed that Canada’s fastest consumer internet is available? Downtown Toronto?
No. How about the 3 main cities in New Brunswick?
Yesterday, Bell Aliant launched Canada’s fastest broadband service: FibreOP 170/30, which offers, as the name implies, 170 Mbps download with 30 Mbps upload.
The service will be initially priced at close to $250 per month, so it is clearly not for everyone, but Bell Aliant has a wide range of other broadband service offerings:
- High-Speed: 1.5Mbps – $34.95
- High-Speed Ultra: 7 Mbps – $39.95
- High-Speed Max: 13 Mbps – $49.95
- FibreOP Internet 25/5: 25 Mbps – $77.95
- FibreOP Internet 70/15: 70 Mbps – $107.95
FibreOP services and bundles are currently available to Bell Aliant customers in the extended regions of greater Fredericton, greater Saint John and greater Moncton. Bell Aliant does not currently use any kind of technical traffic management on their broadband network, such as shaping, or throttling and there is no download cap.
As such, Bell Aliant takes the title of Canada’s fastest broadband service away from Videotron, which has been offering 120 Mbps download (20 Mbps upload) service for about $150 per month. But we note that Shaw has been trialing a gigabit service.
What are the applications that will justify these ultra-high speed services for residential customers?
Will some people set up an informal sharing group to power gaming, video streaming and cloud based file services for their entire neighbourhood?
A reader pointed me to the Novus website, that indicates that it offers Net 200 to subscribers in some Vancouver multi-dwelling units, an internet service with 200 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload. It has a cap of 750GB and costs $268.95 per month.