Rogers is officially the fastest internet service provider in Canada for 2025 according to one testing firm, but it took a bit of a data correction to get there.
The latest broadband rankings from Speedgeo initially named Shaw as the top performer. However, after iPhone in Canada pointed out that Rogers and Shaw have been the same company for nearly three years, the analytics firm consolidated its data to reflect the modern telecom landscape.
Who is Speedgeo you say? It is a global internet performance analytics project that measures and compares the quality of broadband and mobile connections based on real-world user tests. It is owned and developed by V-SPEED, a software company based in Poland that has been providing internet measurement tools since 2006.
Speedgeo admitted they originally kept the two brands separate because they had “indications that the operational merger was not yet fully complete.” Following an internal review sparked by the feedback, they agreed that since full unification is the end goal, the statistics should be combined.
The company told iPhone in Canada on Monday it had revised its data, now officially listing Rogers as the overall winner of the SpeedGeo Award for 2025.
The updated 2025 report shows Rogers leading the pack with an average download speed of 243.8 Mb/s. The top three results are Rogers at 243.8 Mb/s, Bell at 232.4 Mb/s, and Cogeco at 219.6 Mb/s.
While Rogers took the gold, Speedgeo noted an interesting historical trend: since 2022, Shaw has consistently been a faster operator than Rogers on its own, based on its crowd-submitted tests. By folding Shaw’s high-performance infrastructure into its national average, Rogers was able to pull ahead of its primary rival, Bell.
As for upload speeds? Bell dominates the upload speed rankings with a top mark of 200.1 Mb/s, followed closely by Telus at 163.1 Mb/s. These two providers significantly outpace the rest of the field, offering speeds more than double those of their closest competitors.
Rogers and Cogeco occupy the middle ground with upload speeds of 74.9 Mb/s and 54.9 Mb/s. Videotron trails the group, providing the slowest upload performance at 35.8 Mb/s. While Rogers holds the top spot for downloads, this data shows a clear divide in how different Canadian providers prioritize upstream bandwidth.
Notably missing from the top-three spotlight is Telus. Speedgeo confirmed that Telus currently sits in fourth place nationally. Because the firm’s PDF report only highlights the three fastest ISPs in the country, Telus did not make the final cut for the award, despite an average download speed of 199 Mb/s. Videotron was fifth coming in with an average download speed of 193.8 Mb/s.
In the grand scheme of things, the finish line is incredibly crowded. With just 50 Mb/s separating the top 5 providers, the race for the fastest internet in Canada has become a game of inches. While every testing firm uses slightly different methods, leading to inconsistent rankings depending on who you ask, you can bet the Big 3 will only ever share the reports that put them on the podium.
The 2025 rankings were based on nearly 95,000 tests conducted across Canada, measuring fixed and mobile-broadband lines using both cable and Wi-Fi connections.
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How about the upload speed? I get 2Mbps with Telus.