“Share the Charm of Country Living” is Holden’s own line, and it fits. MCSnet fixed wireless connects the village and the black-soil farmland around it, from $49.95/month.
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Our fastest wireless service, with speeds up to 940 Mbps over the air with a quick install and no trenching through your yard. How GigAir works.
Our tower network is built for the farms, acreages, and lake lots past where wired providers stop, with speeds up to 940 Mbps, enough for a busy household, and installation by our own crews.
MCSnet builds fiber, GigAir, and fixed wireless across rural Alberta, and the network keeps growing. See where fiber is headed next.
Part of our Beaver County coverage. Nearby: Tofield and Viking. See the full rural Alberta internet guide.
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Dependable internet is not a luxury anymore. It is family movie night streaming without the spinning wheel, the kids gaming with friends two provinces over, a video call to a child working away, and a rural business reaching customers anywhere. It is a full house of phones, TVs, laptops, and cameras all running at once without anyone shouting to get off the internet.
MCSnet is built to carry all of it. Check what reaches your address and we will show you the speeds available where you live, then help you match them to how your household actually uses the internet.
Settlement here began around 1903 under the name Pleasant Ridge. The community was renamed Holden in 1906 to honour James Holden, an early Alberta MLA, and when the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway arrived in 1909, Holden incorporated as a village that same year. Today it is a village of 338 people on Highway 14, south of Vegreville, sitting along the CN Railway mainline, with creeks nearby forming the head of the Vermilion River.
MCSnet’s fixed wireless network covers Holden and the farms around it, keeping a village built on a century of small-town continuity connected to everything the internet is used for today.
Holden’s flat prairie terrain and black, class-2-fertility soil support wheat, barley, oats, canola, and canary seed, with cattle ranching a significant part of the local economy too. The area gets 100 to 120 frost-free days and around 2,180 to 2,200 hours of sunshine a year, the kind of growing conditions that built this village and keep the farms around it running.
Holden keeps a museum and a theatre of its own, along with a cenotaph honouring the community’s veterans. It also serves as a library hub for the area: the community hall in the nearby hamlet of Bruce houses a satellite library branch that is run out of Holden, keeping books moving between the two communities.
Council here is small by design, five elected councillors and a mayor chosen annually each October, running a village that employs three full-time staff and still manages to punch above its size.
MCSnet provides free public Wi-Fi at the places where Holden gathers: The Gallery, Holden’s event, arts, recreation and tourism hub. It is part of how we give back to the communities we connect, and you can see the full list on our hotspot partnerships page.
“Great internet service provided for rural users. We have been with MCSnet for over a decade and have absolutely no reason to change. From getting an actual live local person on the phone when you call for support, to friendly and professional technicians, MCSnet is a great value for the service received.”
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Learn moreMCSnet builds and runs its own network across rural Alberta. GigAir, fixed wireless and fiber to the home are our last-mile technologies, the final link into your home. GigAir and our newest fixed wireless run on two proven gigabit wireless platforms, with fiber to the home where available.
Up to940 Mbps
Built on Terragraph mesh technology, cnWave 60 GHz powered the first GigAir network and delivers gigabit wireless with no trenching through your yard.
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Up to940 Mbps
Our newest fixed wireless uses Tarana next-generation fixed wireless, which delivers gigabit-class speeds even where trees or terrain block the line of sight, and reaches areas 60 GHz cannot.
Up to1.5 Gbps
A dedicated fiber line into the building, built by MCSnet as our fiber network grows across rural Alberta.
High speeds at your home start with a fast network behind it. MCSnet runs its own fiber optic network linking many of our towers together, so the last-mile wireless and fiber that reach you are backed by a high-capacity fiber backbone. How fiber to the tower works.
Many areas are served by more than one technology. The speed you can get depends on your address, so check your address to see the plans available to you.
CHECK YOUR ADDRESS Learn more about our internet technologiesPlans start at $49.95 per month, and right now new customers get three months of unlimited internet at that price. Exact pricing depends on which service reaches your address, so the availability checker shows your options and their prices in about a minute.
Enter your address on our availability page. It checks your location against our network and shows what reaches you, along with the speeds and pricing available at that address. You can also call our local team at 1-866-390-3928.
GigAir and fixed wireless reach speeds up to 940 Mbps, and fiber to the home reaches speeds up to 1.5 Gbps where available. The speed at your home depends on your address, so check your address to see what you can get.
MCSnet offers fixed wireless internet in Holden and the surrounding farmland, with plans starting at $49.95 per month and speeds up to 940 Mbps depending on your address.
MCSnet handles installs and service calls across the region. Support is available at 1-866-390-3928.
Yes. Our fixed wireless towers cover the farms and acreages around Holden. Enter your address on the availability checker and we will confirm the speeds available at your location.
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